Thank you for your response! I AM going to write a follow up on this — this article was LITERALLY the first thing I ever posted on Medium, and man oh man, funny (in a sad way) how many people are either resonating with it or turned off by it. What an unintentional social experiment! Thanks for reading — and yes, I am about to turn 31 — I missed the 30 under 30 club by a long shot. ha!