It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot
About the Quote
While it is expected that we do certain things at certain points in life, they aren't fixed like timetables for a railroad or an airline. Students who attend college or university are expected to do that immediately after graduating from high school or secondary school. Adults just starting their professional lives are expected to get married and have 2.1 children. Older adults are expected to be done with education.
In the case of education, college will always be there waiting for new students, so it's OK for people to live out their lives first and attend college later. For people who dropped out of high school, it's OK to return decades later to finish the coursework needed to graduate with a diploma. Abraham was around 100 years old when he and his barren wife Sarah became first-time parents.
Many people put their plans on hold for any number of reasons. It's OK for them to return to those plans when an opportunity arises later. The added life experience should have provided those people the wisdom needed to resume their plans. If you're able to become at a later date what you had wanted to become when much younger, you still reached your goal.
Some Information about George Eliot
George Eliot, the pen name for Mary Ann Evans, was born in Warwickshire, England, UK on 1819-November-22. She died in London, England, UK on 1880-December-22.
Victorian-era author George Eliot was a novelist best known for the novel Middlemarch (1871-72). She also wrote Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), and Daniel Deronda (1876). Attitudes of the era caused Mary Ann Evans to assume the pen name George Eliot.
During her childhood and adolescence Mary Ann Evans was raised as a Baptist and with the strict evangelical piety associated with that branch of Christianity. During this time she had learned French and Italian, and later Latin and German.
In 1841 she moved with her father to Coventry, England, UK.It was in Coventry where she met Charles Bray, a well-to-do ribbon manufacturer. Bray was a self-taught freethinker who campaigned for causes considered at the time radical. His brother-in-law was Charles Hennell, author of An Inquiry Concerning the Origin of Christianity (1838). It was this book which set May Evans on the path away from strict religious orthodoxy.
During this time Mary Ann Evans had read books which raised questions in her mind about what she had learned previously, and she began to question her education and convictions. In 1842 she told her father that she would no longer go to church, and for several months their relationship had grown tense. Eventually they agreed that she could continue thinking whatever she wanted provided that she would appear at church without making a fuss. She continued to live with her father until he died in 1849.
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