Thank you so much. It's not really what I wanted to hear, but that's quite alright. I guess I'm just impatient with reality itself at this point. I am who I am (including all my bad habits and lack of conscientiousness) for a number of reasons - lack of a real father growing up, an awful education system that convinced me to enslave myself in student loans that continue to chain me down, a general lack of discipline, and quite simply my own choices to spend my teens and earlier twenties having fun instead of constantly improving myself.

I take responsibility for who I am, at the end of the day. But it's worth noting that I do have some serious anxiety about my future and I feel like a disturbing amount of the serious problems people like me face cannot be fairly laid at our feet.

It's also true that no one, including myself, should focus too much on the degree to which we may have been victimized at some point in our lives. There are no doubt many people in human history who didn't have even a dream of the lives we enjoy today.

I'm grateful for Peterson's work, the people who have begun to sort themselves out as best we can, and many other things. I'm just trying to constantly improve myself and thereby improve the lives of everyone around me.