>starting to get to the age where all the new successful people in the news are younger than me

This uh, feels REALLY bad.

Just put it off until you're like 60 and by that point you won't even care about being conventionally successful anymore and boom, you evaded the normgroid grind psyop and never had to experience the various pitfalls and disappointments of fame, honestly this shit doesn't even affect you as long as your brain chemistry is intact, feeling insecure about your station in life is a product of anxiety/depression that you intellectualize as some sort of righteous existential angst that deserves your attention