Until we reach that place of taking charge and come into full control of our lives, we might never come to realise that there is a life much better than the life we are living. Until you see farther than the shore of your thinking and your environment, there is much to life which we have not seen.
That being said, life has a way of humbling everyone, making us see it from a different perspective, I mean, everyone sees life from the perspective of what they see, the man from Asian sees and a different thing to the African man. We all see differently.