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An essay

The best thing that ever happened to me was terrible. It was that things got so bad, so unbearable, that I had no choice but to change. This has happened to me a number of times. When I was 22 years old, I destroyed my life so badly that I was faced with either prison or sobriety. I had to pick one or the other; “No thanks” wasn’t an option that the court was offering. When I was 30, I was so tired of the stifling, empty corporate grind that I quit my job to trade stocks. I traded security, which I needed, for an adventure, which I needed more. When I was 32, I had lost $40,000 trading…

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