You become older twice: once in years and again when your priorities finally notice.

The years accumulate on a schedule; what you actually want changes on its own timetable, often years later. There is a gap in which someone is chasing goals set by a much younger version of themselves, unaware that the person who wanted them has quietly moved on. The second kind of aging is the one that matters, and it usually arrives after a loss, an illness, or a long stretch of getting what you wanted and feeling nothing.

Check whether your current ambitions are still yours. Ask when you last chose them rather than inherited them from your own past. If the answer is a long time ago, it may be worth setting a few of them down.