That's a good and not a bad. I've not yet met you in person, and still I suspect I'd not like to be on your bad side.
As far as I'm concerned, there is always hope for everyone. Teja was quite the brooder and then I came along and threw a murderwrench in the whole woe is me, manifest destiny thing he had going on. If-and-or-when he reads this, he will probably have words with me.