I feel so sad because my dad doesn’t have the money to send me to a private university and the public university are on strike and have been in strike for a long long time and I just want to be a very successful person and have it all but I can’t go to university, I think about it a lot I see my ex mates ahead of me in private universities and I feel so bad, sad. I just want the pain to end. I have anxiety too, I sweat a lot and I feel so embarrassed. That’s why I just stay away from people, sometimes I just feel like I don’t want to live anymore. Help me please
Anonymous
“If you hate something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude towards it. ”
That quote seems to say it all, what’s hurting is not particularly the situation you’re in, it’s your attitude towards it.
From what you wrote, I discovered you’ve attributed being successful with having a college degree (which is not wrong if your career part really requires it) but I just want you to know that everyone have their own time and time zone – it doesn’t really matter when you graduate, all that matters is what you become after graduation.
That being said, I also think you need to use these period when you’re at home on strike to look for better things you’d be doing with your life if there’s been nothing like college. For example, just within the period of the pandemic break, I’ve spent most of my time using YouTube watching TedTalks, video tutorials on skills I love… And it has been so amazing.
If you commit to building skills now and you start making money, you can,after a while, become independent enough to send yourself to those private schools. What if you never had any parent in the first place?
About anxiety, I will definitely have to talk about that later.