So. . .

[ghostwaters]

I haven't written in my LJ for a long while, I apologize. I got a job working weekends at a coffee shop, and it's taken up a lot of my energy; along with school also. All of the university application processes have started to move along, and everyone is grafting. It's so hard, trying to balance everything, but it's even harder when you have to try

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[idahoswede]

First let me say that I'm sorry you're running into some emotional bumps along the way. It sounds like you yourself have a pretty fair picture of what you see your future to be and that's a lovely thing. I wish I could have had that at your age, truly.

As someone foreign who is living here now and observing, let me say that the policy of the government has been to positively push ALL kids into university, no matter what. And you know, some people just don't fit into that slot that everybody is trying to direct them into. The unemployment is really rising here, although they pretend it's not so bad, and a ton of kids are finishing university with huge debt and no jobs available. Does he even really have a clue what he wants to be? Would perhaps some kind of technical school be better for him? Why doesn't he do what a lot of Swedish kids do, which is take the year off and go to London (or elsewhere) and find a job and work for a year, see if he can get some direction?

It's very difficult when two people who love each other very much still have not only different goals, but even different ways of looking at things. I adore my husband, but by (Swedish) nature, he's a pessimist, while despite a struggle with bi-polar disorder, I'm an optimist.

[ghostwaters]

I understand what you're saying, and I think Rikard understands now too. :) He's made the decision that he will move to England within the year to study. :D I just hope he sticks to it. :) It would be so wonderful. ^_^