As a senior citizen I must admit that I know and understand myself better than at any other time in my life.
I never married but I understand that would have been a disaster for me.
I have always done what I have did well and the best I can but to be honest I've never really had any ambition and although I have a college degree in my entire time of working, I could never say I had a 'career' but just lots of jobs, I never worked any job that required a college degree. I was always satisfied with making enough money to get by.
I have no regrets because I've come to see them as useless. We always assume that if we had it to do over again, correcting our mistakes, that our lives would have turned out so much better. But who is to say that by correcting those mistakes that we might have caused other things to turn out worse? So I just skip the regret assumptions.
I am retired and poor, being under the 100% federal poverty level but I am in good health, have health insurance that costs me next to nothing, I have enough money to pay all my bills each month with a couple of hundred left over and for some bizarre reason my credit score is over 800. I don't have to do much of anything I don't want to do except to take out the garbage on Mondays.
Plus, as a schizoid meaning that I am not a people person although I can do the social sprint but not the social marathon I can avoid them as much as I choose now.
So life is good, people not so much.