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I wonder how many of us got their life trajectories completely altered by that crisis. Mine sure was.

There's this fun question "if you could change one thing from the past...", and I don't know how to answer it truthfully, because we are the sum of everything in our past, the good and the bad, and I like where I am today... but man, that crisis was rough.



> because we are the sum of everything in our past, the good and the bad

Oh, definitely! I had a bunch of obviously bad things happen to me and I’ve gone through your “if you could change one thing “ exercise many times, until I learned to accept all of it got me to where I am.

In late 2001 my mother killed herself so by the end of 2002 I had a crash course on dealing with adversity!

Anyway, while I’m slightly older than you, one of my coworkers at the bank was the same generation as you at university so I remember you, and all the software you wrote that your classmates used. Crisis or no crisis, it’s no surprise you did great :) Nice to see your name on a comment!


Wow, that sounds pretty rough, I hope you're doing better now :)

Thanks for the kind words, your name definitely rings a bell. Small world!




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