I’m pretty sure the general population is feeling this way these days. More so than others, but I drew this last summer when I was stuck worrying about whether I would have enough money to pay for all the bills I had. Student loans up the wazoo, maxed out credit cards…here I was looking at myself in my 20’s and felt like my credit determined my life here–would I ever be able to afford a car? A house someday? Go back to school for my masters degree? All the while, my boyfriend had to get a second job just to help me pay for my bills. And I have a 40 hour a week job, but

Financial Stress

I still couldn’t pay them down. I felt trapped. I felt that this is how my life was going to be from now on. Depressing, isn’t it?

Yes, I always end up writing about my woes  and worried whatnots, okay…but the point I was getting at is, even though I never could afford the house we wanted to get, or a new truck for Isaac, we still got by. No matter if we saw all our paychecks get stamped and mailed away to some bill collector, we still had time to eat, drink, and be merry. And the tables have turned. Isaac lost his job, and now I am making more money to help us out (and I was able to consolidate my credit cards to a very low interest payment). So incidentally, the trap is just a fabric in our lives, whether we want that debt trap to be there, we still have no other way to avoid it. Yes, our lives may be boring because we can’t go out of town on the weekends, or go cruising around town in our “wubaru” but we get by. And I think that’s just about as good as it’s going to get.