In the late 80s', as a teenager, I received an offer from a doctor about improving a program that I had written. I turned down the offer. I wondered what would have happened if I picked it up instead.
In the early 90s', on a whim, for my first vacations as professional, I decided to go to NY. I stayed in a mostly derelict building in Harlem. There I met my future wife.
You're welcome. It still blows my mind that if I had taken ring 'West' instead of ring 'East' that my whole life would have turned out entirely different.
I had the flu when I took my SATs which likely caused me to not become a national merit finalist, which led to me taking the school I liked better over my second choice (which gave a full scholarship to NM finalists), and it is literally impossible for me to imagine the trajectory of my life had I gone there.
In the early 90s', on a whim, for my first vacations as professional, I decided to go to NY. I stayed in a mostly derelict building in Harlem. There I met my future wife.
So many inflection points in our lives.