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Your Decisions Shape Your Life
Unlike in math or business, life doesn’t have a solution. It only has decisions and consequential outcomes.
I used to think relationships were easy.
After all, I was the guy who had his first girlfriend at 5 — not joking.
It was in kindergarten, in a small town called Podolsk outside of Moscow where my dad was born and my family lived for years.
There was this lovely girl. Her name was Vika. I had a crush on her. And there was this other guy, also Sergey, whom Vika liked more.
I was jealous. So I talked to my then-friend Dima to play jokes on the other Sergey.
We hid his bag of soldiers in the toilet, and then watched him run around, crying, looking for his lost toys. At some point, I started to feel bad, and I gave the soldiers back.
It was a great time.
Today I am older and (slightly) more mature. I don’t hide people’s things in toilets anymore (except for that one time recently…just kidding).
And I don’t (god forbid) live in Podolsk anymore.
Relationships are also not as easy anymore. If, when I was a teenager, it was all about being the ‘cool guy’ and taking a girl out on a date to a fancy…
