You Have a Say in How You End Up...Always

 Just when you think life is over, that is when life actually begins. As such it's never too late to be what you were always designed to be. You might not have been an early bloomer in life, but that doesn't strip you of any right to bloom at some point. I believe the ball is more or less in our court. It's the responsibility of the world to test us as best as it can and our duty to persist as hard as we possibly can till we shape the future we desire. No one is doomed to fail in life. We might be pushed, pressured, coerced but never doomed. We do the 'dooming' only when we give in to this tactic and eventually give up. If not, we have an entire lifetime to get it right and become what we always were meant to be. We might not be the authors and finishers of our lives as stated in religious parlance but we are definitely co-authors and co-finishers.