68 People Reveal Shocking Regrets That Changed Their Lives Forever
EDIT: Also, she was playing with my cat once and he accidentally bit her, so she kicked him. She f*****g kicked my cat against the stairs.
I’ll honestly never know if it was a mistake, but I flipped a coin to decide whether to go to college or leave home and hike the Appalachian Trail.
Heads I went to college and spent the next four (ended up being five) years working on a degree. Tails I grabbed my already-packed gear and went on an adventure.
It landed on heads.
College led to job which led to responsibilities. I still camp on the Trail, but my hopes of doing a through-hike are mostly behind me. I’m not as young and spry as I used to be and those responsibilities require a constant paycheck.
I recognize anything could have happened if it landed on tails. I could have wimped out half-way through or less, then gone right back home to do the college thing. I could have finished, been proud of myself and then gotten a job. I could have also had a life-changing adventure. Or I could have been eaten by a bear.
I’ll never know, but I do wonder.
Listening to my teachers, family, and peers when they said I was naturally terrible at math and should focus on the humanities in high school and college.
I’ve always been fascinated by biology and human behavior, and I devour books and articles about genetics, neuroscience, and computer science. But I have this phobia (or used to, I’m realizing that I’m not as clueless as I thought) of very basic math, and am terrible at simple equations.
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