I believe the word for this is Torschlusspanik https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Torschlusspanik https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Torschlusspanik - and sums it up ni

I believe the word for this is Torschlusspanik https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Torschlusspanik https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Torschlusspanik - and sums it up nicely. I'm a kind of morbid person by nature, but the more time goes on the more I realize that awareness of my mortality is helpful for getting me off my ass to get things done. Not necessarily work, just life in general. I wanted to live abroad "someday" and finally tried it when I was 30 (in the nick of time, it turns out). I wanted to start a company, and see now how it would've been 50 times harder to do it with a child than without. In my 20's I always thought I'd get around to going on X trip, maybe asking out Y girl, etc. and instead wasted 9 years in the same town doing not much of anything. Fortunately, the last 9 years have had a lot more going on.