People who say these are the best years of your life might be wrong. For a lot of people, better ones come later.

That line is usually said by someone describing their own peak, not yours. For plenty of people the good part arrives later: more choice, better friends, work they picked. Being told this is the summit while you are stressed and supervised is a strange kind of pressure. It is also just one person’s report.

Take the claim as data about the speaker rather than a forecast about you. Then make a short list of what you expect to be better in ten years. That list makes this stretch easier to treat as a stage rather than a ceiling.