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The rest of the job. Fatherhood before it starts, staying fit with no time and no gym, and leaving work at work when the office is the spare room.

You are not asking about regret out of idle curiosity. Something specific prompted it: a birthday that landed harder than usual, a parent getting older...

"Life is what you make it" is a claim about responsibility, not a claim about fairness. Strip away the poster-and-mug version of it and it says something...

You want one room, or one corner of a room, that is yours. The house is full of kids' things and shared decisions...

When your desk used to be twenty minutes away, the drive home did a job you didn't notice it doing. It marked the end of the day.

You do not have an hour and a half for the gym, a shower, and a drive home. You have maybe twenty minutes between the last school run and the point where...

You are not choosing whether your life changes. You are choosing whether you go into the change with a plan or without one.