Hello, Vico! Thanks for this comment, which came as a pleasant surprise. What are the odds that you would find this story before I unlisted it? I hid it as soon as I found it to be uncurated, thinking it might be too depressing or uninspiring, and I was hoping to hide it until I could revise it with the more success-y vibe of the many self development and life-hack stories that seem to get curated. But then, that would make it less authentic for me, and for a while I was thinking maybe Medium is not the platform for me. I was looking for alternative voices and found writers that make me stay, and that includes you. Thanks for urging me to bring back up this article in its raw, honest form.