I definitely feel this too, the motivation is there to be ready for anything, because you really have no choice even, like dad reflexes as therapy. There’s som

I definitely feel this too, the motivation is there to be ready for anything, because you really have no choice even, like dad reflexes as therapy. There’s something to this for sure from a biological survival standpoint, having kids is naturally the completion of puberty, and the growth you experience raising children has so many more dimensions than the growth you experience while you’re still the one being raised. It may very well be something more fundamental to health than we currently appreciate in modern life. Or perhaps it’s some kind of “law of equivalent exchange” where we have merely traded poisons from one cause of death to another, in terms of life expectancy. It seems we can more easily avoid war and disease and famine today but modern living can end up being a trap that causes a significant number of people to experience a “failure to thrive” of sorts.