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Originally posted by NiceWorg:
.. well, future is always uncertain.. but this time to the point of making me seriously depressed. My gf lives in another country.. and she graduates next summer, whereas I just keep piling up more years to my education career, by either failing exams or setting too high expectations on those I pass.
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Well, to this at least I can relate. I met my boyfriend when I started to study English in 1998. It was great being able to study together and we were on the same level for most things (including school, which made some teachers joke about how coincidental it was that we kept receiving the same grades
). Then I fell ill with a chronic disease and after a few months of struggling to keep up, I had to quit studying. Meanwhile my boyfriend went on to the next year and even went to Scotland for half a year (so I know the distance thing suck too!). I was too ill to study for two years and have only recently started to try and get back to it. I will hopefully manage to finish in three or four years. My boyfriend on the other hand has already completed most of his fifth year, is writing his dissertation soon and will probably graduate before the end of the year.
It is pretty frustrating, especially since we used to do things at the same time and now I'm suddenly two years behind. Makes me feel pretty stupid sometimes.
Well then, there was your "not being alone" moment, I hope. Don't fret too much, just make the best of what you DO have [img]smile.gif[/img]
And anyway, looking to the bright side, when your girlfriend graduates and finds a job, she'll be in a better financial situation, which hopefully means more visits to you!
Another thing since you mentioned your mistake in choosing an education...
Being unable to study for so long gave me plenty of time to consider that stuff.
I started wondering if I'd really chosen the study I liked most of all, whether I shouldn't do something with my other interests/talents, etc. And I decided that I could always go on to learn in my spare time or even switch studies, at any time.
Grojlach is actually a good example - he's been quite ill a while back and at the time when I talked to him about it, he had been studying for three years even though he didn't really like what he was doing. Right now, he's planning to start studying English in September. [img]smile.gif[/img]
[ 05-26-2003, 06:50 AM: Message edited by: Melusine ]