They say that history never repeats itself. But the same old dramas often keep playing out year after year, even decade after decade. Some factors change and evolve; others just take on slightly different shapes. For as long as people refuse to learn from the errors of the past, they will keep on making the same mistakes, over and over.
Great leaders have to be right, even when they might be wrong! Nobody wants to accept the instructions of a ditherer. But nor can anyone hope to be right about everything all the time. So part of a leader's job involves trying to make it look as if they have been right, even when the evidence begins to suggest otherwise. That's partly why the world is full of so many people in high office holding tight to entrenched positions.
What's the difference between a big risk and a small risk? It is never the amount that you may stand to gain. It is the amount that you may stand to lose. What's the difference between a wild gamble and a calculated risk? It is whether or not you have really managed to see what you stand to consider a matter very carefully. How well do you know all the circumstances that surround a particular situation? How well do you know yourself? Trust only what you are sure of.'There are more questions than answers and the more I find out, the less I know.'  At one time or another, this statement will apply to just about everything - and everyone! It probably explains why so many of us prefer not to ask any more questions than we have to. We rarely end up confirming a fact; we just come up with more that has the potential to confuse us.
 See how events in your life tend to follow a particular pattern. You can take constructive steps to change this, 'Is it attainable?' Almost certainly, it is, at least in part. But you need to decide whether it is appropriate. Do you really still want what you once wanted? Or were you just pursuing something that you thought you probably ought to want? Your time and your energy are both precious. So too, is the opportunity life presents you. At least, this raises some considerably challenging issues about difficult facts that must be faced. But then, a whole new era of opportunity will begin. 
It is as if you can now see very clearly the nature of a particular problem in your life; a problem for which, up till now, you have had no real strategy to solve.  somewhere in your world now, someone is telling you that you can't have this AND that, you can only have this OR that, this shift in power makes and/or a perfectly acceptable option all very exciting but a little daunting. It implies a dramatic situation that you have become almost inextricably involved with. Yet it also speaks of your desire to find freedom from this. For that to happen, you are going to need some help. 
How very encouraging to see that there is a person in your world, who truly has enough power and influence to assist you.Things can't be the way that they used to be. The clock won't turn backwards and the videotape of history won't rewind. Remember that? And there's a case in point. Once, they cost a fortune. Now, they can't give them away. Nor is it just technology that keeps moving on. Ideas, attitudes and expectations alter with the passing of time, too, a chapter in the story of your life so far, is now coming to a close. 
They say, 'If it ain't broke, don't fix it.' There's no convenient catchy phrase to sum up the policy that you need to pursue when you are not entirely sure whether something is broken or not. What if it works sometimes but not at other times? What if it is erratic and unreliable? Then you have to ask yourself whether you are better off with something that at least sometimes works, than with something that has become inadvertently damaged beyond repair.You are under no obligation whatsoever to accept the seemingly inevitable,to justify a sense of passivity and acquiescence, which can surely be only disempowering.
Happiness is when, what you think, what you say and what you do, are in harmony.' So said the late, great, Mohandas Gandhi, known to his friends and admirers as Mahatma. Your quest for happiness, taking you one step further in the best possible direction.  You have spent too long  feeling torn. Too many divided loyalties, too many attempts to reconcile duty with desire.