Would you please stop posting uncivil and/or unsubstantive comments to HN? Those are what we're hoping to avoid.

Not tonight it seems, unfortunately. But after tonight, back to normal, stiff upper lip and all that. Right. Now then.

No worries, the reason you're upvoted to the top is because many of us see bits of ourselves in you.

I'm also of the opinion that many of us are capable of genius-level accomplishments, but it requires a confluence of mental and physical well-being, life circumstances, and luck that doesn't always come easily. So, I am driven to do better and learn more day by day, but I also won't rebuke myself too harshly if I never bring to fruition some big, world-changing idea.

>So, I am driven to do better and learn more day by day, but I also won't rebuke myself too harshly if I never bring to fruition some big, world-changing idea.

Love and forgive yourself. Accomplish what you can, strive for better. But at the end of the day what is is what is.