• Got_Bent@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    I have accomplished very little in my life.

    I have pissed off innumerable people, been ostracized, ghosted, fired, disowned, discarded, and deserved all of it.

    I have never lived up to my potential. I’ve got less than zero ambition.

    I have been a historically awful husband and/or boyfriend.

    But I accomplished one thing:

    I got my daughter through college with no debt.

    While she did the work to get admitted and slog through the classes and deal with the remote classroom bullshit of the COVID era, I’m proud that I was able to pull my shit together just long enough to keep writing those godforsaken checks so she will never know the struggle of being shackled to a lifetime of crippling debt.

    I did one good thing in this lifetime, and because it gave her opportunity, it was all worth it.

    • GiddyGap@lemm.ee
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      9 months ago

      It’s stories like this that make me thankful that my children have EU citizenship and will never have to struggle through college debt and neither will we as their parents.

      • frunch@lemmy.world
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        9 months ago

        It’s comments like this that make me happy i didn’t have kids (as a usa citizen)