Bob, have you ever heard of
"Optimum Trajectory"?

What?

"Optimum trajectory."

Your life is like a river.

And if you're aiming for a goal
that isn't your destiny,

...you'll always gonna be swimming
against the current.

Young Gandhi wants to be
a stock-car driver?

It's not gonna happen.

Little Anne Frank wants to
be a High School teacher.

Tough titty Anne.
That's not your destiny.

But you will go on to move
the hearts and minds of millions.

Find out what your destiny is
and the river will carry you.

-- from "The Men Who Stare At Goats" (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1234548/)

That low man seeks a little thing to do,
Sees it and does it:
This high man, with a great thing to pursue,
Dies ere he knows it.
That low man goes on adding one to one,
His hundred’s soon hit:
This high man, aiming at a million,
Misses by a unit.

—Robert Browning1

khoj rahaa hain wo manjil apnee
usko kyaa maalum
kee faaslein badh rahein hain har koshish mein
kal jo haasil thaa ab wo bhee naa rahaa.

"he is searching for his destination
but he does not know
that each attempt is making him further away from it,
now he does not even have, what he had yesterday"

"... there seems something else in life besides time,
something which may conveniently be called "value,"
something which is measured not by minutes or hours
but by intensity, so that when we look at our past it
does not stretch back evenly but piles up into a few
notable pinnacles, and when we look at the future it
seems sometimes a wall, sometimes a cloud, sometimes
a sun, but never a chronological chart [18]."

-- E. M. Forster (Structure of Novel)

"nemat naheen to taufiiq hee sahee
is mod se shuru ek naya sisila hoga "

If not a blessing then at least it is a divine opportunity,
this turn will mark beginning of a new era.