I love that Renovation. The movie director analogy is great. I suppose it is about trying to pretect ourselves from disappointment that we try to prepare ourselves for the worse case scenerio but it makes much more sense health wise to opt for hoping for the best.

Awesome too that you heard back from your colleague to reinforce the postive movie version. Good luck.

A learning you might carry forward from this in addition to the power of positive thinking is to avoid however possible having all your eggs in one basket. To always have a plan B, C and even D so that you have more control over your future. It would have been horrible to see your dreams crushed because there was only one way to get there.