20 years ago today: February 19, 1996. I was "at a crossroads".
   I was projecting 20 years into the future. I made a few
   predictions in that message (to an online group) of potential
   futures I could see for myself, but this was the bleakest.
   "While my skills may be in computers, and I could make a lot of
   money doing programming, computer repairs, and the like, I see
   myself 20 years in the future, miserable, lonely, depressed, and
   suicidal." Age 24 Well, 20 years have gone by. I'm glad to
   report that THAT potential future was false. Did I circumvent
   potential tragedy by being aware of it at the time? Did I AVOID
   the very future I predicted by speaking it aloud? Or was it
   never to be? I don't know. I'm just glad I was wrong :)