> Even the decision to go down a science track at school, when the humanities turn out to be your bag, can mangle a life.
'Mangling a life' is shooting way over the top.
Is having to deal with going down a school track that didn't turn out to be your bag what you can justify calling a mangled life? Isn't that just what we call life? The issue is that we'll almost always be able to find issues in our decisions in hindsight, if we really look for them. Even a ten million dollar exit can feel like a failure if you were shooting for a hundred.
If we forego using bombastic words for things that they shouldn't be applied to, the hollowness of the premise is revealed, and the illusion crumbles:
> Even the decision to go down a science track at school, when the humanities turn out to be your bag, can have a negative effect on your life.
'Mangling a life' is shooting way over the top.
Is having to deal with going down a school track that didn't turn out to be your bag what you can justify calling a mangled life? Isn't that just what we call life? The issue is that we'll almost always be able to find issues in our decisions in hindsight, if we really look for them. Even a ten million dollar exit can feel like a failure if you were shooting for a hundred.
If we forego using bombastic words for things that they shouldn't be applied to, the hollowness of the premise is revealed, and the illusion crumbles:
> Even the decision to go down a science track at school, when the humanities turn out to be your bag, can have a negative effect on your life.