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My Ice Cream Was Fine: A Story About Ambition, Regret, and the Quiet Math of a Good Life
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 7 2026
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.29
Height: 0.30 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
This book will not make you rich.
It will not give you a morning routine, seven habits, or a reason to wake up at 5 a.m. If that's what you came for, there are a few thousand books ahead of this one in that queue - and most of them are lying.
This is the story of a young man who bought one of those books. Believed it completely. And went to Bangkok to become the person it promised he could be.
What happened next was not in the book.
Across one unraveling stretch of nights, he starts asking a different question than the one he arrived with. Not how do I get everything I want, but: which of these things were ever mine to want?
One day the goals end. The promotion ends. The audience goes home. Time wins - it always wins - and the only thing you decide is what kind of person it finds when it does.
A short, sharp novel about ambition and its bill.
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