DUers how would you respond

[hunter]

21. I wanted to work with a supercomputer.

Now I can find computers more powerful than the one I was imagining in the trash.

I wanted to go to college to be an engineer. But it turned out I hated that so I changed my major to biology. It took me nine years to graduate from college because my mental health issues got worse in young adulthood -- depression, OCD, eating disorders, that kind of thing. Ten years from my high school graduation I was working for a contractor and renting a room in a house full of bachelor alcoholics and drug addicts. That's about the time I made my next ten year plan which put my college education to use, but was full of even bigger surprises.

My point is we live in a trickster universe. Sometimes the most unlucky people in the world are those for whom everything goes smoothly, just as they planned. Opportunities for growth often occur in unexpected and unpredictable places. The secret of life is to be ready to grow whenever one finds themself in these places.