Nope. I disagree. You don't need a hole in the bucket list. Under 50??!!! (Actually I thought you were under 40). Listen, child. I got my main bucket list item at 72, and am still checking them off. I figure I have a few more years before settling down. You've got decades, and the way your're going, you will need to write a whole new bucket list before 60, including that book filled office (which, take it from me, has its downside also). Hang in there kiddo, you're just getting started.
I would only add that having unfulfilled dreams and goals, though certainly difficult to experience, also means that you took the risk to dream them, set them, and pursue them in the first place. That's a very good thing! That takes courage.
I feel the pain of this reality more acutely having now read it described so candidly. Thank you for that. It may be time for a good cry, then a smile with contentment over the joys of what life has become, without lingering too long over what might have been.
Nope. I disagree. You don't need a hole in the bucket list. Under 50??!!! (Actually I thought you were under 40). Listen, child. I got my main bucket list item at 72, and am still checking them off. I figure I have a few more years before settling down. You've got decades, and the way your're going, you will need to write a whole new bucket list before 60, including that book filled office (which, take it from me, has its downside also). Hang in there kiddo, you're just getting started.
I would only add that having unfulfilled dreams and goals, though certainly difficult to experience, also means that you took the risk to dream them, set them, and pursue them in the first place. That's a very good thing! That takes courage.
I feel the pain of this reality more acutely having now read it described so candidly. Thank you for that. It may be time for a good cry, then a smile with contentment over the joys of what life has become, without lingering too long over what might have been.