You know God gave me a gift to do other things besides play the game of basketball.
My father wasn't around when I was a kid and I used to always say 'Why me?...
Discernment is God's call to intercession never to faultfinding.
If you dream of something worth doing and then simply go to work on it and don't think anything of personalities or emotional conflicts or of money or of family distractions it is amazing how quickly you get through those 5 000 steps.