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I spent a lot of time with my now wife and met my best friends

I worked a ton of overtime and bought two luxury watches.

I got diagnosed with ADHD, BPD, and autism. Then promptly lost my health insurance so I can't actually, you know, do anything about the above.

Some people started businesses. Some people turned their entire house into a Lego garden.

Oh my gosh, I had 2 kids, went back to college, rocketed my fledgling IT career forward and gained a mortgage during the pandemic. Granted I probably would've done all those things without the pandemic, but many of the pandemic era policies helped make each of those steps much easier than they normally would have been