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Re:How I Made $200k When I Was 16 Years Old Through Coding (... by isodude on Wednesday June 05, 2019 @01:04AM (#20101636)
What is tough with happiness is that the more things you have the harder it is to achieve. Or a perspective that effectively erase the chance of being allowed to be happy.

My own path was to start dancing, a tough one like argentine tango, since it requires full mental awareness. Which in effect means that you always come home with a grin from side to side. This will be true with any form of activity that actually makes you focus.

You always have the rest of your life ahead of you, it's up to you to make something meaningful out of it. Don't set out to find a partner but rather your passion (that involves other human beings not computers), and love will find you. And as others wrote, it's a bit of luck involved, but you have to give luck a chance to strike you.

I guess it's never too late, regretting stuff is always a downward spiral.

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Re:How I Made $200k When I Was 16 Years Old Through Coding (... by cutler on Wednesday June 05, 2019 @05:28PM (#20109365)
Same here. Took-up Argentine Tango at 45 and met more women than I could have imagimed. Finally met my life partner at 52.
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Re:How I Made $200k When I Was 16 Years Old Through Coding (... by isodude on Monday June 10, 2019 @03:17PM (#20149837)
It balances up computer related work pretty well wouldn't you say?
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Re:How I Made $200k When I Was 16 Years Old Through Coding (... by cutler on Tuesday June 11, 2019 @10:31AM (#20155735)
More than that. In my mid-40s I had a weird back/neurological problem and spent several futile years with physios, osteopaths and chiropractors. Then I started going to a gym where an assistant recommended tango. The back problem soon cleared-up.
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Re:How I Made $200k When I Was 16 Years Old Through Coding (... by isodude on Monday June 17, 2019 @11:53AM (#20204215)
Great for you!

For me it solved the puzzle of the meaning of life. After a couple of years I had a dance where everything just flowed perfectly. I clearly remember the feeling of 'dying' and being 'reborned'. That is now my point of reference going forward.

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