20 years ago today: February 19, 1996. I was "at a crossroads".
  I was projecting 20 years into the future. I made a few
  predictions in that message (to an online group) of potential
  futures I could see for myself, but this was the bleakest.
  "While my skills may be in computers, and I could make a lot of
  money doing programming, computer repairs, and the like, I see
  myself 20 years in the future, miserable, lonely, depressed, and
  suicidal." Age 24 Well, 20 years have gone by. I'm glad to
  report that THAT potential future was false. Did I circumvent
  potential tragedy by being aware of it at the time? Did I AVOID
  the very future I predicted by speaking it aloud? Or was it
  never to be? I don't know. I'm just glad I was wrong :)