The kid you used to be still has opinions about your life. Every now and then, ask them.

Before the compromises stacked up, you had clear ideas about what was fair, what was fun, and what you would never do. Some of those were naive and worth outgrowing. Others were plainly right and got traded away for reasons that seemed good at the time and would be hard to explain to that kid now. The gap is worth a look occasionally, not to feel bad about but to check.

Ask what the ten-year-old version would make of how you spend a Saturday. Take the answer seriously without obeying it. Some of what they say still holds up.