These words here "If you saw your life through the space time continuum and realized how limited your chance is to live for a while, and how momentary your life is compared to the age of the universe, would you still be eager or fervent to make the same mistakes that you have always made?" , I cannot agree more. As far as character building experience goes, my path in science has been all that as well. My main interest, hobby and job is Scientific Instrumentation. These devices are extensions of our senses, and the tools for our discoveries, yet remain a mystery to most. Working with these instruments for the past 18 years has been an eye opening, mind blowing experience.