My Comments:

It's a valid observation, but the ability to see possibilities depends on your perceptual acuity and sensory acumen.

As the late creativity maestro Dr Edward de Bono, often acknowledged as the Father of Lateral Thinking, put it,

"Studies have shown that 90% of error in thinking is due to error in perception.

If you can change your perception, you can change your emotion and this can lead to new ideas."...

"Everyone is surrounded by opportunities. But they only exist once they have been seen. And they will only be seen if they are looked for."...

"Opportunity ideas do not lie around waiting to be discovered. Such ideas need to be produced." ...

"If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd."!

Godspeed.