I turned 30 last month, and I gotta say I can totally see how easy it is to fall into the state you mentioned. I can already see through getting wasted on week

I turned 30 last month, and I gotta say I can totally see how easy it is to fall into the state you mentioned. I can already see through getting wasted on weekends with friends, hikes, trips, etc that seem to "normalize" as I age. Though, I don't see kids as the only "fix"; far from it. Perhaps it's just that we get saturated from experiences, and how much new things we can experience is limited by where we live, expendable income, physical fitness, etc. So it's natural to not have the same level of novelty in experiences. In the same vein, my uneducated and inexperienced guess is that raising the third or fourth kid wouldn't feel as much as mentally rewarding as the first kid or two.