For the first time, since college

After more than a decade of cooking nothing, I finally prepared a few eggs for myself, on a stove. The last time that I did this was back in college, during the 2006-2010 time frame. It was during an attempt to lose weight, which was successful. After that point in time, I had no major reason to cook anything for myself. Therefore, I did not. I did some basic food prep for meals, but that was it.

Looking back, my 8 years of education in high school and college, in 2002-2010, were the best years of my life. After that, 2010-2012 were pretty good years. That's when I was introduced FiM fanfiction, and when I started to formulate ideas for my own stories, which included FiM fanfiction. There were also other plans and projects, like learning how to create neural networks, handle Linux, and go to graduate school. From 2013 onwards, these plans fell through. I found myself in, to use an overused buzz word, toxic work environments, that escalated preexisting social anxiety and self doubt. 2021 seems to the year in which this is all turned around, through active career improving efforts, done with my alma mater's department of career services. The negative mirror to my 8 years of major education, which are 2013-2021, my vocational purgatory, may well be coming to an end.

This makes me wish that I had completed stories for my original FiM fanfiction premises and brain storm sessions, or at least created a FiMFiction account before FiM ended. Everything that I do now on FiMFiction is all happening in the last hour. If I had done any of that, perhaps I'd be reaching out to a broader audience, today, or have a few stories under my belt, to counteract the imposter syndrome levels of self doubt. While I was making active efforts to improve my vocational situation in 2013-2021, these were all half measures, to some extent, and the previous 8 years feel like a bit of a wash.

Luckily, I can move forward.