How going into medicine later in life shaped you better?

To those who went into medicine later in life, how did your previous careers/university majors, shaped you to be a better doctor and person too. What characteristics and strengths did you develop?

I was supposed to go into medicine right after high school in my school system but my mental health was so bad. I worked so hard to get some grades but at the end I didn’t graduate with honors then I hated university and I kept failing everything.
I was so tired with the depression and my life felt hopeless.

The only thing that kept calling me every time I was hesitating on my university major was medicine. It feels like a calling to me, something that doesn’t want to let me go.

I feel like if I went it straight from high school, I would have hated medicine, my life and everything. But a part of still think that I will be behind my peers if I go in a few years and I do not want to be judged neither.

Experiencing failure so early made me become more resilient but I am still scared of the future.

So, to those who took some years before making medicine their final choice or those who were sure that they made the right choice with an other career/major before switching, would you do it this way all over again?