Idk about y'all, but there's definitely a sweet spot in your late-20s/mid-30s when you've got money and freedom but also a certain amount of stability and safety, and also you're still fairly young and healthy. It feels good, and as you get older you can't help but pine for the ability to go back and do that stuff again. Definitely also a degree of that when you're younger - when you get your first bike or you start getting money independent of your parents from your first job or you first go off to college or you start flirting and getting flirted with for the first time - and you really discover the boundaries of your life moving outward that your sense of possibility expands.

Young kids tend to be very forward looking. They're excited about the next grade level or about progressing in competitive events or getting a taste of a professional career. A lot of that is simple naivete. And that might be what we're all really pining for. Not the halcyon days of yesteryear, but the ignorance of youth.