it's not that i wanted to cut my parents off. it's just i got tired of explaining why their calls felt like receiving a jigsaw puzzle with half the pieces missing. while my friends throw their 10th anniversary parties at nice venues, i'm at my one-bedroom in a rundown area eating instant noodles and binge-watching the same show for the fourth time. everyone says i’m ungrateful, but they dont see h...
wait, so five years of late nights cramming past papers and all I have to show for it is a collection of rejection letters stuffed into a drawer—my family now just looks at me like I’m some ghost haunting the living room, silently judging me for not becoming one of those burnt-out machines from IIT—like, what was all that effort worth if I cannot even afford a slice of pizza on Friday nights? #fai...
honestly, my parent was diagnosed with early onset dementia at fifty-eight. now, I’m twenty-seven, working full time, and caring for them full time too. I literally checked my bank account yesterday, and there was less than three hundred dollars after bills. my heating bill alone was more than a week’s paycheck. how am I supposed to afford any of this? I am literally a human juggling act, and yet I am one emergency away from drowning.
honestly, my parent was diagnosed with early onset dementia at fifty-eight. now, I’m twenty-seven, working full time, and caring for them full time too. I literally checked my bank account yesterday, and there was less than three hundred dollars after bills. my heating bill alone was more than a week’s paycheck. how am I supposed to afford any of this? I am literally a human juggling act, and yet I am one emergency away from drowning.
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