From your mentioning of an aspiration for getting to 1 whole coin, that likely is becoming more and more unreachable by newbie bitcoiners, so each of us just need to attempt to create BTC accumulation targets that are reasonable for our own circumstances, so maybe we start out striving to get 1 million satoshis, and then after we reach that we might strive for 5 million, and then 10 million and then 21 million and then 50 million.. and gosh, if we end up getting to 50 million, then we have reached 0.5 BTC... so we do what we can, and it could still be possible to reach 1 BTC or multiple BTC, but likely not very possible or easy for normie no coiners who have not yet even started to take bitcoin accumulation seriously enough to figure out a plan to get started in their BTC accumulation journey as soon as possible.
Having to beat ourselves by trying to go beyond our reach in bitcoin accumulation due to the time and mistakes of the past is some how a bad approach and since I already know that fact, I put every regret or missed chances of accumulating bitcoin when the price was more affordable, bit at instance it best to take thing as easy as possible because on the long run, what matters is the ability to resolve able to hold something tangible as out Bitcoin portfolio in the long run.
Let say in the next two to three years from now we should be in a better position where we already achieve what we thought we had missed, and are in a good financial status through our Bitcoin holding, and at that point, it becomes clear to us that Bitcoin is a lifetime journey and not some early birds only things, because when it comes to Bitcoin investment, what really matters is two things and that is.
1: the amount of capital you have to invest in Bitcoin
2: how much time you are ready to hold your investment and what you choose to do with your extra income while you waiting for that time to be achieved.