We don't get offered crises, they arrive.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.
To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.