Is it too late to start planning your life at forty?

As the date of the announcement of the scores of the college entrance examination is approaching day by day, this group of parents of college entrance examination students can not sit still, more and more anxious. I don't know how many points the child can get, what specialty to choose, what school to read. I am not worried at all. My daughter has her own ideas, she wants to be a physical education teacher, last year when she planned to study physical education. My daughter did a rough estimate of her scores and thinks there is hope. But now the scores are not announced, everything in the uncertainty, it is better to be patient and wait for the scores to come out and then think long term is not too late.

My colleague is obsessed with my son's future and regrets that I didn't do a good job of planning my son's life ahead of time. They also said that some foreign parents have been giving their children study planning, work planning and career planning since their children were in kindergarten.

Not to mention that our parents don't know, we don't know what planning is. The first thing you need to do is to get your hands on some of the most popular products and services in the world, and you'll be able to do it on your own. The first thing I did was to get the chance to see the girl as a teacher, and then I learned to be a teacher, and then I learned to major in computer science," he said. There is not a little bit of their own ideas, are other people in the lead. Including now it is time to apply for volunteering, ask the child what they want to study in the future, do not know; what they want to engage in the future occupation, do not know. Do not know, can only be like a headless fly, ask this, ask that, today heard this school is good, want to let the child enroll; tomorrow heard that this specialty is good to find a job, and want to change their minds. The other side of the coin is that they don't have their own ideas, and they don't know what kind of life they want to live in the future.

Not to mention the children, I have no idea about my future life. Now I'm forty years old, before forty years old has passed without mentioning, if I'm lucky to live to 80 years old, my life still has 40 years, only half of the past. What am I going to do with the next forty years, do I have a plan? No, I don't. Since I have a stable job, a steady income, a harmonious family, and a regular life, I'm in my comfort zone, and I'm comfortably enjoying a peaceful life of one day less than two, which is basically as far as I can see at a glance. If nothing happens, I should be the same as most people, to provide for two children to go to college, work, get married, I stayed up until the retirement of the body allows me to help them take care of the children, do housework, square dancing, a lifetime will be over. This kind of life can't be colorful, can't do anything, can't make any achievement, nothing challenging, four flat. It's probably not much fun, either. It's all about working for your kids, and you can't live your own wonderful life.

If I start to wake up from the age of 40 and start thinking about my life from the beginning, what do I expect my future life to be like, and what kind of old lady will I be when I'm 80 years old? What long-term goals should I set? What kind of efforts should I make in the near future?

This is another profound question that has to do with the quality of life and happiness for the rest of my life, so I should think about it.