Well, I know how much Dyl looved food and I do believe he liked to dabble in cooking french egg cuisine dishes so just for that sake alone, if he decided not to go NBK, who knows? He might’ve been a master chef on Food Network committing killer cuisine dishes for his own show. 😉   

Ahem. Ok, in all seriousness… Dylan was struggling with chronic depression and also was trying to manage it all on his own without reaching out for help, so whatever he decided to do after high school would’ve been likely as much of a struggle for him as high school had been.  Dylan might’ve thought that leaving the town that he despised and going to the hot, dry, foreign desert landscapes of Arizona would’ve been that ticket to a fresh start, a way for everything to start looking up for him for once.  However, what if things were not going his way – the specific way in his mind’s eye he expected things to go?   So, he would still have been susceptible to those impulsive suicidal thoughts whether it be not doing well enough with college grades and still running empty on the motivation or not being able to make new friends the way he hoped to now being in a completely new town where no one knew him or whether that one girlfriend he managed to date five times and finally have sex with decided to friend zone him and date other guys. There’d always be something that didn’t quite turn out the way he’d hope because, hey, that’s just the way life is!  And so the question becomes: would Dylan be able to cope and handle those external life struggles living independently from his parents?  There would always be something that would test him and given that he was not getting therapeutic help, it is likely that he might’ve made suicide attempts.   There comes a point when Dylan’s self-reliance would hit a breaking point and he’d find himself alone in his dorm finding it easier to solely decide all alone to take matters into his own hands and  opt out rather than bother anyone about his sadness problems.  For Dylan to have conquered the depression he would need to have taken the first step and admitted and confided in someone that he had a problem and he would need to go get help so that he could manage his illness and ways to deal and cope with daily stressors and triggers. So, if Dyl hadn’t gone NBK, suicide was a strong potential outcome without getting the help he desperately needed.