A lot of people realize they have been missing this in their middle-age crises and then they go off to the Himalayas, the Oceania, the Amazon, and so on. Our b

A lot of people realize they have been missing this in their middle-age crises and then they go off to the Himalayas, the Oceania, the Amazon, and so on. Our brain gets mothballed by routine and the years fly by without us doing what matters to us, or why we even got jobs in the first place. We also get convinced, with every passing day, that this is good for us. That routine provides structure, stability, safety. Then at some point, we are so convinced we don't have the capacity to doubt it anymore. Some of us will get shocked out of it by some kind of a trigger, like a death, financial shock, physical ability changes, etc. But not everyone.