My Bucket List when I was young was pretty darn simple.
That's partly because I was not raised in a high quality school district. Once I read an essay by a respected journalist who grew up in my area, in my school district, he's about my age, and he blatantly said they raised us kids to work in the factories or, if you were female, maybe work in food service or offices, then get married, have some kids, and let him support you.
I have to agree with him. In all four years of high school NOT ONE TEACHER ever talked to me about going to college. NEVER. Even though I had a 3.5 GPA at graduation. This was, of course, I now realize, partly because I was female.
I very much wanted a normal, simple life when I was young. I did not think it would be such a terrible thing to stay married forever or stay with one employer for 30 or 40 years. But then the 1980s happened and all the companies were down-sizing and killing their pension plans, spread that chaos even to schools and colleges. In the 1980s, businesses learned to LOVE chaos and that mindset has continued for decades.
When I married, I meant that vow. It was a promise for life. I was THAT SIMPLE. If someone had ever mentioned a pre-nup to me when I was in my 20s, I would have scoffed at that! "Oh he'll never hurt me!" That's what I would have said "He'll never lie to me or hurt me." I was that simple.
Today, I tell all young women to shelve all their romance and get a pre-nup. Because you wake up one day and he throws something at you. WHY? You still don't know why, but the fact is, it happened.
Why would you change your personality and obligations in the latter stages of your life?
If you took Psychology 101 in college, or have learned about
Maslow's Theory, phase of life, reach it young or later,
and some just don't.
How Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs Explains Human Motivation
There's a million reasons why people don't reach that high part of the chart - a million reasons! Lack of income, loss of primary relationships through divorce, separation or death, health problems, recovering from trauma, bad choices, lack of social support, etc., etc.
Personalities can change over time because SH** happens. Life happens. New friends are made and old friends are lost and that can influence our personalities. People COPE, or don't, and try to survive on one of those five levels of Maslow's Pyramid.
I won't answer your other questions because I don't understand the point of your survey.