General consensus is when you're going through hell, don't stop there, keep on going :\ Ten months is not as bad as it was when you were younger. Look forward

General consensus is when you're going through hell, don't stop there, keep on going :\ Ten months is not as bad as it was when you were younger. Look forward to even more maturity, I never thought it would be a superpower to be able to write off a whole decade, but that's how it turned out and I'm just about twice your age by now. Never would have known unless I kept on going. >seems very late to do so now I for one am going to do it again anyway. With complete confidence. Complete confidence that I will never live long enough to find out whether my next company ultimately succeeds or fails in terms that mean anything to other founders like you would expect. No matter how long I try to live. When you think about it, it's largely a matter of scale and I should have been looking at it the same way already as a teenager, plus my 20's and 30's. All the advice on the internet can really be food for thought, and the perfect answer may be in one obscure blog post or something, but the whole internet all adds up to less useful than what one warm human being can offer in a live back & forth conversation. Maybe if you have had a non-throwaway username in the past (especially recently), revealing that could help this one website to give more meaningful advice in its own little way. You have revealed so much already. Tell this in person to someone who knows you only a little bit better than us internet randos and some inspiration could appear where previously there was none. The thing that stands out is the way your "Tell HN" is heartfelt but this one message doesn't tell very much for this audience compared to a collection of previous comments. Which would give all kinds of people more to go on about things that mean something to you in particular. To me it triggers a response more like an "Ask HN", but based only on the message of this one day alone. It would be good to have some replies along those lines.