Comment by treetalker

Follow up with a post one year from now. Tell us then how you will have acted in the world since the surgery — with regard to past, present, and future.

Apropos, I recommend Taleb's Skin in the Game to both you and all others on the thread who may not have read it. (If you haven't, perhaps during your recovery.) But, as Taleb points out, talk is cheap, and so is reading and living vicariously through texts. Actions speak louder than words, and we must do and act in the world, not merely chat about it.