[edit: this was written in response to the surmise that Tiyon was not attending classes]
I think with a little reflection we can all identify something we could have done, achieved, or experienced in life, but didn't because attempting it required us to do something that we feared, feared we would fail at, disliked doing, or that demanded more than we were willing to risk or invest.
But our failures likely happened outside the public eye, possibly without anyone ever knowing what opportunity or capability we failed to pursue.
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Here's a Self-Help book idea, free for anyone to pitch to a publisher: Live your life as if there was a VolNation thread devoted to it.
Working title: "C'mon Kid--Don't Do Like We Did"