Why we fail to make fitting life choices

We all have one life, but many options in the ways we choose to conduct it. The majority of people on this planet, have no other choice, but try to survive by every which possible way. 

Others (much, much fewer) are trying to build good careers in order to lead a comfortable existence. Still, a very select few have the option of self-actualization, which in Maslow's hierarchy of needs, is the highest level of psychological development in which a person’s full potential is achieved, something that usually happens after basic physical and ego needs have been met. 

This is in that latter category that some people focus on making our world a much better place for the rest of humanity. This truly is a lofty goal that quite a few deliberately chose to miss, mostly because greed gets in the way of thinking beyond one’s egoistical needs. 

Of course, these options are generally discovered when one is well engaged into their own personal lives and it would require a massive and painful turn-around to embrace them after the fact, which is why this seldom happens in real life. 

In other words, we should have been given the rules of the “game of life” along with an overview of these basic choices long before we picked a school and a career. Can we dare say “Sorry, but too late”?