I thought about this for a couple minutes and I realized that a lot of the things I like in my life now weren't really choices, and a lot of my issues came directly as a result of some choices. Uh, feels bad man.
A few random ones then I guess:
-Continually pushing against my boss's wishes last year to relocate to Georgia for several months for a position. We were able to convince them to take it remotely, which has worked out perfectly, so not actually being in Georgia for more than a few weeks affected nothing. Additionally I met some extremely close friends in the months that proceeded once I got back from Georgia, and I would have very likely not met those people had I still been out there in Georgia. As a remote worker, my contract has also gotten continually extended for the Georgia position. And if that happened after relocating, I would have had to deal with being out there during COVID and potentially coming back home, which would have been scary.
-Making an OKCupid account on a whim on NYE 2016 and being active on there on and off for like over three years. I've only had one sorta-relationship, but I've had amazing social experiences as someone who was otherwise socially isolated before they signed up, met some extremely good friends, and I've realized that I'm probably trans thanks to the help of people from that site/app. This all would have never happened had I not had that whim.
-Joining the local Melee scene in 2014 and continuing to be active as a player and spectator until 2018. In retrospect this was the golden age of modern Melee and I'm lucky to have been a student surrounded by other people immersed in the scene during that time, even if in retrospect the whole thing was a kinda corny subculture of dorky college dudes, I still love it.
-Becoming less active on GameFAQs over the last like five years and making a spin-off Discord server for one of the boards I went on my "internet home". GameFAQs has only gotten shittier and shittier in that time period and I'm glad I'm not on there for like eight hours a day (really) like I did during the peak of my depression.
