[Babble Mode On]
I too have some old monkeys in my closet/drawer. If I listed the pros and cons of my life the cons (that is the negative part right?) are a good 100 times longer than the pros. Do I have regrets? Hell yes. But I can't go back and change things, so I am forced to chalk it all up to experience.
All I can say is I haven't made the same mistakes twice, so I guess all those bad memories did serve a purpose.
Today my philosophy is I do what I can, I try to improve my meager talents and I take things one step/day at a time. That's all I can do. And you know what? Slowly but surely I'm thinking less and less about all the historical crap in my life.
Right now things are on the uptake, but this 'move in the right direction' has taken me 14 years. I guess I'm ready for a 'qualified' overnight success. Then in the impending interviews they'll say "Oh, so you've been at this for a long time, wow, I never heard of you before."
[/babble mode off]
Cheers!
