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Everyone's Life Is Weird

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I guess you could say that my life stopped making sense in a conventional way when I dropped out of college, but looking back it seems clear my original plan of graduating and working in finance was ill-conceived from the start. I grew up in an environment where I was made to feel that if I got a single B+ on a report card nothing good would happen in my life because no colleges would accept me and then I would never get a FAANG job and I would die alone. The artists I admire have had lives that included nervous breakdowns and fleeing countries because of war and leaving their wife in another continent and writing their first novel to pay off gambling debts.

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