When life pokes you on the butt with a needle, start again.
If you feel like you’re at the end of your wits and you’ve completely exhausted your Chewing Gum supply, then just look up and ask for help (no religion or faith required for this part at all).
If you commit yourself to living an upright life, and doing the right thing no matter what, whilst being kind and helpful to “people” as best you can (regardless of their hairstyle or religion), the tides of life WILL eventually turn in your favor. Then it’s just a matter of time before the Lego pieces of your better life start “falling into place”. Yes this little “feel good ritual” (that most people have flushed out of their brains years ago due to ten thousand bad breaks and two broken nails) still works for ANYONE just as effectively, regardless of your faith or the lack of it. The only catch is you have to be consistent and faithful to the process for years and years and years, just as an NBA player is to the game and just as a rabbit is to carrots.
The laws of life are like Gravity, Oxygen, and Water. They do not discriminate. Or turn their backs on you just because you have a hair sticking out at the back.
Once you have rewritten your personal mission statement to align with that of your Beautiful Creator, start mowing out a path toward your “true calling” with your kitchen scissors if you have to. That may meaning having to restart your life with a menial entry level job (as I had to do myself). But once you have some oxygen running through your lungs and hair, you can start dreaming again. And start souring again.
You only need to strike the gold once to be set for life, so keep digging.
