As a grey hair, it's not cynical enough.

Funny seeing your user name. When I worked myself to get ultimately nowhere but money that spends so quickly, the first thing that went was my music creation time.

Having children later in life is much harder/different than having them younger. You don't get to go back.

Your children are only children for a very short time. You don't get to go back.

Much of life is tradeoffs.

Not earlier commenter but their username is a reference to “ableton live” which is music production software. Not “able to live” which is just a one letter difference

"the first thing that went was my music creation time"