Journalist and author Hunter S. Thompson reminds us that we have the power to choose our path:
"It is not necessary to accept the choices handed down to you by life as you know it. There is more to it than that — no one HAS to do something he doesn't want to do for the rest of his life. But then again, if that's what you wind up doing, by all means convince yourself that you HAD to do it. You'll have lots of company."
Source: Letter to Hume Logan (April 22, 1958) as featured in Letters of Note