I am comparing my life now to my life eight years ago, and also to some extent the life of my friends who are still living in the same town and working at the s

I am comparing my life now to my life eight years ago, and also to some extent the life of my friends who are still living in the same town and working at the same company. As far as how my other life may have "turned out"... I guess I'm not really sure what that means. I think the one comparison I can really make is if I had not made a lot of changes. Of course it is possible that I could have changed my life in some totally different direction, maybe without leaving town, and life would have been even better than my life now. That, of course, I can't guess. But I feel conviction in my bones that I did right.