but now as we reach the second pinch point do you maybe sense another type of feeling in your protagonist's body Perhaps it is a pain or perhaps it is just a shadow that crosses their heart a reminder of their age and mortality that death is much nearer for them than it is is for these youngsters they love the reason it was so difficult for them to choose to fully reenter life back there at the midpoint is because what's left of their life begins to grow shorter and shorter the end of the road is within sight