Oh, there's emotion there. No question about it. Not bitter. Angry, maybe. I made a really bad decision because I thought business was going to take off like crazy that year. We were running on all cylinders. It was going to be the culmination of a ten year effort.

You don't go through something like that without the emotion staying with you. Yet, if you are going to move on you have to be able to put it in a drawer and only look at it every so often just to make sure you are not going to do something dumb again. As time passes you have less time to make mistakes like that.

The emotion was very evident. That’s what made the post so powerful. You didn’t take it out on the parent poster.