What advice would you give to someone half your age?

It doesn't feel like it, but you can have that life you think is unattainable. You can find a wife, you can get a home, you can have a child, and there's a good chance you'll like it. You have to pick your hard, maybe you don't get to live in the capitol city and go to the club every night, but try to be consistently virtuous and you can succeed even in a world that feels stacked against you. Remember that you only exist because thousands of generations of your ancestors made it through harder times than this.