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<p>Ah, the tough lesson of life: a seemingly minor point in time, when one make’s the wrong decision, can have profound implications.</p>
<p>You’ve got to put some things in your mind now, IMO:</p>
<p>1) You are about to enter a “rehabilitation phase” in your life. You are very lucky in the sense that you can redeem your path in terms of getting to college at least, within a couple of years or so. But you need to view it as such a long-term project. Rome wasn’t built in a day. In your case, Rome won’t be rebuilt in a day.</p>
<p>2) You should adopt the Stoics’ stance: what happens to you (or in this case which you did to yourself in the past) doesn’t define you, but how you respond to it does. Rise to the challenge. Don’t pity yourself and don’t get wrapped up in what happened except as you should learn the right lessons, make amends as best you can, and move on.</p>