Why your late 20s can feel like a race against the clock

Many people feel their late 20s are a deadline to sort out career, finances, marriage and children, say a psychologist at Aster Whitefield Hospital and a fertility specialist at Nova IVF, Agra. Societal expectations and comparison with friends' visible milestones fuel the pressure, even though people rarely see the struggles or choices behind others' success. Life, the experts stress, is not a race.