Unless you are physically incapable of doing what you really want to do then there is nothing stopping you except your mind.
There is an evil called inferiority complex. There is another one called laziness and there is yet another one called procrastination. These evils live in the mind of man. To be victorious and to be relevant in life, you must subdue these evils. It is normal for them to want to counter our aspirations, dreams or even our efforts towards great achievements, but they must've silenced.
We even know of people who have one incapability, especially in physical defects, but have overcome the limitation of such in capabilities.
No matter how far your folks or your mates that gone in life, it is never late for you to start. Take the first step and do not compromise.
Will you regret not walking your path and really living to your fullest potential?
Every man at a point in life will experience this regret if he refuses to take necessary steps at the right time. Such people, instead of accepting their own faults and failures, transfer the blame on others - the government, the economy, and so on. They will claim others that are more successful are fraudsters or that they cut corners to achieve success.
Regret is not a good thing. It could lead to a life of perpetual depression.
I heard of pople who powered down their SP sometime ago when they was some challenge on the steemit web. They later hated themselves for that step. I heard of steemit but refused until after 5 months. I'm glad that I took the step when I did, but I still wish I joined when I first learnt about it.
I just can't understand why people would rather live with regrets than follow through with what they wanna do.