I didn't figure out what I wanted to do until I was 38. I'd spent twenty years doing things that made sense on paper. then I took one class on a whim and I was completely wrecked by it — in the way that only happens when you find the thing that was yours all along. I know a lot of people in their late thirties and forties who think they've missed it. you haven't missed it. the thing that's yours is still yours. it doesn't expire.