It was certainly interesting meeting up with plexq last year after not having seen each other in something like 9 years.

The problem is, my peer group have that experience, and I don't. I don't see a way round that, short of [improbable fantasy]. Am I getting that experience from my large serving of fail, it it helping me? I don't know. I don't have enough emotional distance to evaluate how badly I misread previous situations.