Second thoughts can turn one’s thirties into a difficult time. It is often the first time of transition after leaving home when a person feels real doubt about the future. It can also be a very lonely time, because the very people one would normally talk to about personal problems may be the people one is having second thoughts about. And the distress is deepened by that twisted old idea that if you’d only done things properly, you would have everything settled once and for all by twenty-five or so.
