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Well, just the usual, slightly less optimistic every year. I believed that world is fair even if it sometimes takes a while, that I'll be rich, that you can achieve anything if you try enough.
Over time I learned that the world isn't fair, that you can't be rich if you have a conscience and that you can only achieve what the ones with power over you will let you.
All of that of course has an exception: you might get lucky.
The most recent change was when I started watching two kinds of cases and what is the usual resolution / punishment. It's rape cases and who gets to keep the kids when people break up. Rapists usually walk away with very lax punishments with bullshit reasons and women almost always get the kids, even if the woman is straight up a psycho and the man is just a regular guy.
I wasn't under the impression that judges were somehow better than the average person, but this kinda showed me that they're actually much much worse than the average person.