"...age 18, full of ambition & promise."
Making assumptions aplenty there, my man. 
You go back in a time machine to your old high school, & meet your former self, age 18, full of ambition & promise. You talk for hours about what you're done since then with your life/his life, successes and failures. You younger self gives you a report card on your life. You get
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Totally. This tweet made me reflect on the fact that I have never been ambitious.
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am a failure. always will be. my ambition was to be 1 of the greatest mathematician and pianist AND juggler AND millionaire. But it turns out, i'm just slightly above homeless in city street. I like to think what failed artist would think. O, the great artists who died in poverty
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I am sorry to hear that you’re struggling man. I often feel the same way about myself. I am sure that there is more positive in your life than you let on and that things will turn around career wise. Good luck to you!
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Hmmm...likely a horrified-but-objectively-incorrect F: At 18 I was a delusional devout catholic trying to become a nun. Now I’m a non-believer raising my three daughters in a secular atheistic household. Amen.
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My current self is much more ambitious and promising than my anxious, uncertain 18 year old self, so I think the younger me would find the present state encouraging.
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Happy Birthday!
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My younger self would think I did fine career-wise, but would think it was completely crazy that I got married at 22. My younger self was wrong.
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You killed the part that would have disagreed with you. Not saying you were wrong to do it. But the semantics matters.
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