i have made a gazillion such choices and i can't tell you how they worked out because i will never know what would have happened if my choices had been different. i refer you to robert frost!

probably the most dramatic choice i ever made was to go to japan to visit for half a year to a year. i uprooted my whole life to do that, and i ended up staying a whole decade. i don't know what my life would have been like had i not done that, but i can assure you it would have been QUITE different!

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Several times. It has been the only constant in my life. Sometimes it has worked out, other times not so much.