There is no rock solid reason that exists that we can't do all these. We have the ability to change what we are or the situations we're in at any given moment, but making up our mind to do it is the stumbling block that most often trips us up. It is all too easy to sit around and think of hundreds reasons and excuses for not being or having what we wish and then decide that there are too many odds against us. If only we had more money. If only I'd gone to college or taken that opportunity four years ago.
Life is such a rut.
My spouse won't let me. We've all either said or heard someone say some of these things at one time or another. Rarely ever are there too many odds. We are never trapped. That is just a frame of mind which has come from this society we live in.