I had this thought after remembering one time that my DT (digital technologies) teacher at high school suggested that some of the class could try join a hacking competition. Nothing ever came of it, but I thought it was interesting at the time.
What’s really interesting is seeing the choices I made, and asking “what if I did the other thing”. Just off the top of my head, I could be still at uni doing research on maths or physics, I could be working on designing new robots for who knows what, or branching off even earlier, I could have been a doctor like my parents.
I’m only 24, so it seems like I might be a bit young for this kind of thinking, but there’s still a lot of things I could have done differently.
My two best friends growing up chose to branch off and get into heavy drugs. One died two years ago, the other just two weeks ago.
I always saw both of them as being so much smarter than I am.
It’s pretty lonely being wrong.
I’m so sorry about your friends,. How painful to lose either, let alone both in such a short time.
Yeah. It was even worse that I’m 3,000 miles away from them and wasn’t able to do a thing to help either. But even when I wasn’t- neither of them wanted any help. I guess maybe I just wishfully think that in the end- they would have taken it, but then again, intrusive thoughts tell me that they were both intentional.
The worst part is- I’ll never know either way.
Smart people get sucked into addiction too.