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2023 - Letter to Omar

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Hi Omar! You might be the only one reading this, or you might not. If you aren't me and you are reading this, then welcome. I thought I would write a reflection on how my year went. In a similar fashion to how Bill Gates or Warren Buffet writes annual shareholder letters, I'd like to also write a letter. But since I have no shareholders, I've decided to write a letter to myself. So here goes! If I could summarize this year in one word, it would be the word change.  The changes in my life that Omar in 2022 could have never imagined. Starting out in 2023, I was still completing my courses for my masters at Simon Fraser University. I had just gotten back from my co-op in Ottawa, and I was just phoning it in for the last semester. For the first time in my life, I learned how to snowboard! It was an amazing experience with my then-girlfriend J - and I can proudly call myself a beginner snowboarder now! During that last semester, all my friends around me were looking for jobs. In