I'm graduating from my community college after four years in a couple weeks. I started at a big state school right after high school (right after things started returning to in-person). I withdrew the following spring, took some classes at my community college the following year, failed almost all of them, worked in a public school for 6 months, returned to school the next fall, slowly stopped failing classes and eventually got back to the academic level (honor roll) I was at in high school.
But here's the thing, I'm not proud of myself. Every time I bring it up people seem to view it as some perseverance and great thing that I'm able to do. And I know that this is just me having bad standards for myself and that I should be proud. But I'm not!! I'm truly so ashamed, I'm pissed, I'm disappointed, I'm upset, and I feel like people are babying me when they say I'm wrong, and I'm honestly a little sick of it.






















