The years you spend “not there yet” are where you become the person who can handle “there.”

Waiting is not a delay before the real thing, it is the manufacturing process. Whatever you want generally requires a person who can handle it, and that person gets made in the unglamorous years by small amounts of pressure applied repeatedly, which is why people who arrive somewhere too early often cannot hold on to it. You are not stuck in the queue. You are being built in it.

Which makes the question not how long is left, but what this stretch is teaching you. Pick one capacity you know you are short on and use the current, lower-stakes version of your life to work on it deliberately.