Comments on: I totally don’t get why people blurt evil things at me

By: Lynne S. Gordon

Lynne S. Gordon — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 20:02:20 +0000

Oh my! Well, all I can do is relate to you what I went through when my daughter went off to college. It is a very long story with tears of joy, tears of sorrow, anxiety, happiness, surprise, and lots of other emotions and reactions. My baby girl had the audacity to grow up and move on with her life, LOL. She is now married and preganant! I will be a proud GrammerLynne come next January. The wheel turns, things change, life goes on, the beat goes on. Scary times, good times. So if you want to “hear” the full story, holler and I will email you “offlist”. You will get thru this and at the end stand proud at Arthur’s College Graduation. Peace/Lynne

By: moonwolf23

moonwolf23 — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:51:59 +0000

congrats on college yaye!

By: Amy

Amy — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 01:46:01 +0000

I don’t have a personal “debt for education works out” story (state school, practically free), but my crazy mentor has a good one. He’s got five degrees, three of which are graduate. (“Leap of faith” in the singular seems to have very little meaning compared to that!) I asked him about his student loans, to which he replied that he intended to die before they are all paid off. Yet: He’s happy, comfortable, lives in a beautiful house with a great family, and I don’t think he doubts that it all worked out how it’s supposed to.

So there.

Of course it’s scary; I do know. I’m looking at moving across the country and going into debt for law school, and holy crap, that’s a giant leap. But these things work out. I don’t have any idea why that’s the case, but it is. It’s just about leaping for the right reasons, which you and Arthur seem set to do.

So have fun leaping.

By: deblipp

deblipp — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 13:43:22 +0000

No evil here!

By: Tracy

Tracy — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 12:47:38 +0000

I’ll share the conversation that Ray and I had yesterday on this very topic.

I told Ray I was worried because I knew how much you would miss Arthur when he went off to college, despite how glad you’ve said you are to see him off. I told him I knew this because I was going to miss him too and I’m not even his Mom.

We both concurred that Arthur is a brillant kid and that he was going to do great in college and be wildly successful in whatever he decided to do.

Hope that’s a little less evil