I don't know about a moral but you can trust me to go all mystical with this and yes, 5 and deer do go together quite interestingly apparently according to those "in the know".

Letting go of the useless scenarios of what could've been of my envisioned research career if I hadn't had to worry about precarity for so long and hadn't worked so hard to try to stay where I clearly wasn't meant to.
Live and learn. It'll take long, there'll be detours, but I'll bounce back.

The cringe factor is high with this one... Most of my classmates were 12 or 13 at the time so I figure their reception might have bern a bit more...puberty-y.

I did, however, absolutely love the Snap textbook series, which we covered in full. I can still remember the songs!

It sounds wild that a book about Burnout (also called “Burnout”by @enagoski.bsky.social and her sister, Amelia Nagoski, would bring joy, but it did. They even used a term called “joyfully ever after.” And that tickled me.