Originally Posted by
JNort
I'll keep mine kind of short. This decade was a decade of self change and discovery.
After always being brilliant in school growing up, I dropped out of college for performance reasons.
Got a good paying job.
Seen both my grandfathers pass away to cancer and alzheimer's.
Saw my mom struggle through addiction to alcohol and pills and come out of it clean after almost 50 years.
Changed religions 6 times. (Fundamentalist Christian, Christian, deist, a couple I'm embarrassed to list, and now agnostic or atheist depending on the definition used)
Changed political positions 4 times. (Alt-right, center right, center left, and now liberal)
Went from a conspiracy theorist to not believing in any of them really.
Went from anti vaxx to pro vaxx.
Re-discovered my love I had growing up for chemistry and biology.
Discovered I have ADHD and suffer from depression which explains why I failed so hard in college. I couldn't focus and was too depressed to ever leave my room for days on end.
Next decade will be about starting fresh. I plan on going back to college at age 30 in the fall of 2020. With the help of medications I'm confident this time around will be different.
This is quite an odyssey. Congratulations.
Sage Grouse
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'When I got on the bus for my first road game at Duke, I saw that every player was carrying textbooks or laptops. I coached in the SEC for 25 years, and I had never seen that before, not even once.' - David Cutcliffe to Duke alumni in Washington, DC, June 2013