Kids want to be older. Adults want to be younger. Hardly anyone wants to be exactly now. Try it anyway.

Almost everybody is slightly displaced in time, leaning toward an age they are not. It is a comfortable way to avoid the age you have, since a future or past self never has to do anything today. Wanting to be somewhere else in your own life is so common that it passes for normal.

Spend one day this week without the running commentary about being too young or too late. Do what is available to somebody exactly your age, with exactly your money and your schedule. It is a smaller life than the imagined one and it is the one actually open to you.