Giving Up On “Status”

This year, an agency sent some funding to help toward my ability to finish my Bachelor’s degree.

It was like a godsend, for finances were a major barrier to finishing my remaining 12 units.

Another bout of external-circumstantialy-enforced homelessness delayed my attendance, and though people at the school knew I was fighting to return, one department did not step up to support me.

I found out, now that I have benn planning to attend online in January, that student accounts  returned the money to the agency – without asking or informing me.

Goodbye Bachelor’s dream and the supposed relief that comes when from your promised, societally-approved help to lift me above the world’s economic barriers.

It is a good thing I have learned – as I keep learning from new ways of having my nose shoved into the sh** and dragged back and forth – to not depend on anything that I am told can be mine by ascribing to dictates of society.