You'll make decisions. They will have consequences. For good or ill they will change your life forever. No, but, seriously, I'm scarcely older so I distinctly

You'll make decisions. They will have consequences. For good or ill they will change your life forever. No, but, seriously, I'm scarcely older so I distinctly remember what it's like to be young and watch stuff feel permanent for the first time. Having a job, a house, no immediate plans to leave your city, whatever. You wonder if that's all there is and if it's not why whatever else can't come any faster. You realize you've got mostly what you wanted and everything else you could want seems small or like someone's already done it. And you watch the days stretch and all alike. So my prescription is: * Wake up in the middle of the night (or stay up till the middle of the night, but sober). Go outside. Observe that your immediate world isn't, in fact, only what you usually see of it. * Make older friends, they'll tell you you're full of it. * Make younger friends, they'll think your boring old man life is the epitome of freedom.