and my cousin is out of the hospital

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5. I too was in and out of university, taking another stab at it as we speak...

I spent 4 years trying to get something out of SFU. I'd start a semester and get 2 to 3 months in only to watch it all come inevitably, and predictably, crashing down on my head. Like an idiot I'd sign right back up and try again, why would this time be any different? Well it's got to be right? I can't afford it to NOT be different I'd tell myself. But of course the anxiety and depression would return and I'd quit again.

Eventually I realized that wasn't going anywhere and I went to work in the retail sector. My mother got me a job at 7-11 and I spend 4 happy years there as an assistant manager. But things turned sour there and I burned that bridge too. Then it was on to another retail job which worked out well for another year or so. I think you see the pattern. Hopefully with the positive momentum I've built up this time and the life changes I've finally started to enact this coming semester won't be yet another disaster. Only time will tell.