I just read about a question posed to seek meaning about what R Buckminster Fuller, often acknowledged as Planet Earth's Friendly Genius, said about "there are no straight lines in the universe."

My personal interpretation, while taking the liberty to transpose it to the personal setting:

A lot of people think the path to success is a straight line, but it is not. It has got numerous turns and curves, and we just got to go with the ebbs and flow of it all, as exemplified by entrepreneurs and other professionals illustrated in the following infographics, Lost in Life.