>>212942116
Depends.
I think reality hits dreamers harder than people who never had them in the first place.

If your goal in life was getting a 9-5, marry your high school sweatheart and have 3 kids, then it's just more of the same shit you've been doing since age 20.

If you had lofty ideas about how your life was going to turn out and you perhaps spent a bit too much time in imaginationland instead of reality, you're going to hit a wall and you're going to hit it hard.

For some people, having "potential" becomes a large part of their identity. These people like to have alot of possibilites open for them, but when you hit 30, you're no longer a young guy with alot of potential, you're a squandered potential to whom which alot of doors slam shut in rapid succesion.

Some just wants to be part of something significent, create something of importance, feel like their existence wasnt wasted. Hitting 30-35 is around the time you realise your life is going to be as mundane and boring as your parents. It's when the last remnants of your dreams die.