What a man can take with a sword, a woman can give by her flesh alone. Life.
Fitz fixes fyces fitz.Fatsafices.
Start writing sooner. Don't wait for permission. Don't hesitate.
Tomorrow owes you the sum of your yesterdays. No more than that. And no less.
Everybody has felt at one time or another that everyone else in the world had a better shot than they did, so when you engage that, you engage the reader, and I think you create a character that brings the reader more fully into the story.
Life is not a race to restore a past situation. Nor does one have to hurry to meet the future. Seeing how things change is what makes life interesting.