:claps hands:

Oh, YAY!! Personal insight = accomplished.

See, it was very soothing to go from a place where life had no rules or meaning from day to day, unto one where the rules were clear and I apparently-- for the FIRST TIME-- had both the authority and ability to see to it that bad things didn't happen to me on a regular basis as a result of highly predictable cause-and-effect. (I think that this means that I pretty much WAS one of the kids in Jon's example.) College life was amazingly, exhiliratingly empowering.




Schrödinger's cat walks into a bar. And doesn't.