I recently passed another birthday and realized fully-well that I am staring down 40. This moment has given me pause to think: what goals have I set to now that I will regret if I have not accomplished them by 40? I took several years away from studying Japanese to get fluent in Spanish. I'd reached N4-N3, with a vocabulary several thousand words deep. I'd logged 225 days on Bunpro, and many more dozens of hours consuming input. I knew hundreds of kanji. Having begun to study Japanese in 2008 or so, it feels like my white whale. With three years left on the clock, there's still time to reach N2, ね？ With so much code to write, and math to study, maybe it will always remain out of reach...