Mark Kozelek beautifully expressed a more melancholic version of this sentiment in 24, the first track of Red House Painters’ first album: https://invidious.sno

Mark Kozelek beautifully expressed a more melancholic version of this sentiment in 24, the first track of Red House Painters’ first album: https://invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=i0-FA_svTKg https://invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=i0-FA_svTKg In the song, he acknowledges his lack of accomplishments as he gets older. There’s ambiguity as to whether he’s more regretful that he never achieved the heights that his younger self envisioned – or if he’s coming to accept this. While he wrote the song in his early twenties, I guess this is a sentiment we can all relate to: there’s always some age-related milestone looming ahead of us.