In your early fifties did you find yourself doing things the other way round or life handing out things it should have handed twenty years before?

Did you end up at a later stage of your life living situations that should have been over and done with at an earlier stage? For example, new job/career, becoming a parent much later than others, losing a job and starting over, having to make other major life choices. I mean things that you should have done and dealt with earlier suddenly hitting you at a later stage- a sort of doing things the wrong way round!