If you release your expectations, you will be open minded, and so any path that opens from that point will be a natural opening. In other words, the path that naturally opens is the path that is destined for you. It is your path. I find that a lot of people, depressed people anyway, want to be big heroes, and if they aren't acheiving something enormous, they aren't satisfied with acheiving anything. Come to terms with the possibility that you may always be an average person, not acheiving anything in particular. Then you will begin to focus not on what you don't have, but the special gifts you do have. You will learn to work with the cards you have been dealt, and not wasting your energy hoping to be dealt different cards. You will work with what you have, and that is the best you can possibly do because the cards you have are the only cards you have.
Learn to let go of expectations of what life should be. Perhaps it is not your place to be a big hero, or make a big impact. Maybe your place is to make little impacts that will pave the way for someone else to make a big impact. Almost everyone wants to be an olympic gold madalist, but that champion wouldn't be a champion if it weren't for the many people, trainers, family, people of guidance, who lead that champion to greatness. Maybe the whole point of your existence is to reach just one person, or creature, who will in turn, play a key role in the unfolding of the universe. The only reward is living in harmony with what is, what has been given. And you may find this reward more fulfilling than all your previous expectations.