‘And still today one seldom finds that people come to great things without they first go somewhat astray…’ Meister Eckhart.

So… we (myself and few friends I know) have a lot of potential to do great things, as we went astray for a long time! The trick is to live long enough, in order to be able to do great things after gone astray. And in this respect today we are pretty limited. In the old days, on the other hand, things were easier. You could go astray for a couple of hundred years and still have time to get your shit together and do great things.
In fact, we read in the Bible always things like: “When Mahalalel had lived 65 years, he became the father of Jared. And after he became the father of Jared, Mahalalel lived 830 years and had other sons and daughters. Altogether, Mahalalel lived 895 years, and then he died.”
If I’m lucky, I don’t have more than fifty years left !