Yes indeed.
The thought of many things is not necessarily the way of things, in fact, rarely. The way of things is what one comes to grip with or not. When one does get a grip on the way of things, then, one can move in other directions and change the way of things, albeit slowly, but surely, or not.
Is this contradictory? Does achievement as identified by the individual come at the expense of the way of things? Or is achievement the way of things?
Still, hope springs eternal, that one will become what one is not, or do what one does not, until the day when one can let it all go.
You have to let it all go, Neo.