Anyone agree with the following?
Once you start work, if you get into one that demands more than 14h of your day, you may get consumed by it that you practically have no time after work during the weekdays for anything else. With that, it seems like you only have some semblance of a "life" during the weekends. Such behaviour repeats itself day after day, week after week. You simply lose interest in the things you used to love and lose your sense of individuality.
Then this goes on till your 30s, you realised that you have wasted your youth at work. You realise that there's new 20 over years old who are way more motivated that you at work. You get jaded but you still need that income to survive. Hence, you simply go into zombie mode at work, dragging yourself to a workplace that you probably do not enjoy anymore.
Maybe to some, you might get married along the way and that's when you realised that you are no longer simply living for just yourself. Your wife may need your attention and some of your time needs to be committed towards her and to the home you are building. Thus, you lose more of yourself and fall into a routine of doing the things you need to do than the things you want to do. Sometimes, you may even confuse both your needs and wants, homologating them together.
And lastly, your wife wants kid(s). You don't want to disappoint her. Neither do you know well enough if you want kid(s) either, so you just "move along" and go about making love for procreation. With kid(s) coming along, you realise that all your attention is on the kid(s) and wife who has her body and emotions greatly affected after having a kid. Maybe that's what we all call regrets. But you just don't have the courage to admit so, knowing that it is not socially acceptable to think so.
