Am 29 and too Late For Success?

I’m 29 and this last 8 years I have failed in every possible ways. I have lost my prestige status (4.0/4.0) at school. I have become ill of bipolar. I have become indebted of more than UGX20,000,000 . I’ve been psychotic multiple times and I wasted numerous years at the mental hospital while seeing most of my peers progress in their lives.

I don’t think that 27 is too late for success nor 29. I really believe you can turn your life around as long as you don’t give up and you still fight for your dreams. You have to find a meaning in your existence. You have to overcome your challenges in the most creative ways to define who you are. You’ll become stuck numerous times. You’re going to get hit multiple times. What matter is how you’ll get back up. Everyone fails at some point. Some decide to surrender for good while others despite the roller coaster choose to fight some more.

Years ago in the Middle age, battles were fought one army in face of another. Thousands of soldiers were risking their lives for their country, religion or cause. The battlefield was the most desperate place on earth. It was the place where all hope vanished and the place where casualties were increasing daily. It was the place were bodies were accumulated and heavy armors left away. For many there would never be a hope of victory, their body was only a vehicle, a pioneer in the massive chess board of war for winning the battle. Yet they would fight with all their heart, soul and mind to win the battle of their life according to the mission they were given. They had no fears. It was between them and the enemies. They had no choice to give everything they had. They had armors, swords and arrows.

You as an individual today what change is the context. You are still fighting a war, but it’s not physical like you could picture a Middle age battle. It’s in your mind. You need to keep your soldiers healthy for the fight. Despite the canon shot, the grenades that are being thrown away and the toxic gas, you need to keep fighting.

Thoughts can destroy you or empower you. The choice is yours. You decide to feed whatever side is good. Your conscience is your most powerful allies as well as your most powerful enemies. It’s more than good or evil, it’s more than shades of grey, it’s thousand of different tones

How will you know you are taking the right path in life?

You wake up and everything you do that day is effortless.
You wake up and everything you do is hard.
People in your life tell you that you are doing great.
People in your life tell you will never succeed.
Your bank account balance reaches $100,000 for the first time.
Your bank account balance is $-1.63 for the 8th time this month.
People around you love you and say great things about you.
People around you loathe you and want you dead.

Are you starting to notice a pattern here?
The problem is that at one time or another, I have experienced all of these and at each point in my life, I was still “on the right track”, I just didn’t know it at the time. The problem is that there is no way to know if you are on the right track, you just have to have faith. It is one of the reasons why “God” for me is a worthwhile construct. Regardless if you believe the myth of the old bearded white guy who lives in the clouds or not, the belief in God is about having “faith” and in order to be a success in life you have to have “faith” that you ARE on the right track. Even mistakes and setbacks don’t mean you are on the wrong track, they just help you better define for sure what the right track is so you can get back on it. See? That is how it works. Life is a “participation sport”. You have to be actively doing something in order to win at life. It honestly doesn’t matter what you do, just do… something… anything. Your path will be revealed along the way