It is basic tendency to want everything .. good house, awesome salary, awesome spouse & kids, health, career, memories, respect, fame, etc. But for most of us w

It is basic tendency to want everything .. good house, awesome salary, awesome spouse & kids, health, career, memories, respect, fame, etc. But for most of us we can only have a small subset of these and its a trade-off. What causes frustration (from personal experience) is that we are unable to make peace with the subset we choose. If you want A+ career then something has to give. All this is easier said than done. What has happened since last many decades is that it is harder to choose the subset and harder to make peace with the trade-off we made. It is from these that many people have regrets in later life about things they could have done. I am at present "jack of all trades but master of none" situation for the categories I mentioned and I have still not made peace with it.