Not achieving my dream & thoughts of giving up
When I was little, I was lucky to find my passion in life which is to become an inventor. However, I started working on the invention ideas that came to mind. And I failed, and failed, and failed... Now, after 14 years of working on my ideas (which never saw the light of day), I can confidently say that I've reached a level of thinking, analysis, and the ability to see systems from an inventor's perspective, analysing them, understand how they work, and solve technical problems. Not only that, but I can now classify inventions. Meaning, I can classify inventions as simple ones worked on by a single inventor or complex ones resulting from billions invested in corporate R&D departments. The problem here (as a single inventor) is that at this time there are no simple problems left for someone like me to work on, and also (and this is the most important thing) I no longer have the energy to keep going. Now I'm seriously considering giving up on my little dream, but I'm afraid of regretting it later... My question is, has anyone else gone through the same experience?