Why do we put pressure on ourselves when it comes to succeeding in life like finishing a career, owning an expensive car and marriage as we get older?

[DenizLikesTennis]

[HighlyVolatile]

It's easier to accomplish these things when you're young. One of the struggles I find with my age is that I don't have the youthful ambitions I used to have to conquer and outdo everyone competing against me, but I'm able to relax now because I accomplished what I needed to do when younger.

Don't need an expensive car though. But you want things that last as I see it. I don't have the energy to be fighting uphill battles all day every day as I did in my 20s. If you want to be able to rest, save it for later. You have the potential to be the smartest, sharpest, most competitive, most ambitious, now in your 20s. Utilize it now and reap the fruits of your labor.

Then you can relax on your personal throne that you built when you reach my age, maybe still summoning that youthful energy here and there. But you have to pick those battles more carefully with age. Your body and mind force you into it. The time to conquer for you is now. The time to sit back and manage the territories you conquered is later, like my age.

[Dargil]

Owning an expensive car does not belong on your list. The others are a good life path.

[jennifer_bloom]

I don’t have to have a perfect life, a decent and healthy and safe and loving one is what I ask for, cause if I die and go to heaven, I can enjoy perfection forever.

[exitseven]

Nothing happens if you don't motivate yourself.