My timelines in life have never looked like those of my peers and I always feel like a misfit so I am always excited to meet people who don’t follow this ‘traditional’ path that most people take. And honestly, this cookie cutter life isn’t for everyone. It has driven millions of people to lead an unfulfilled life & unhappy for most of it.
Yeah, it's good to have goals but timelines? This by this age, that by that age. I think that has good possibilities for leading to mistakes of one degree or another and not necessarily to the happiness we think we will have.