There Are Trends In These Articles

I've just read three of articles on people who have a ton of student loans.  I'm noticing they have a lot in common.

Keeping in mind, I did read a lot of them on Yahoo! Finance, and maybe their niche is to try and depress you, and make you feel like a major d-bag.  I should try to expand my horizons to other websites.

Anyway,  what I noticed among these articles is how they list some weird ways in how having these loans ruin your life.  Well, weird to me, anyway.  Here is how their message translated into my brain:

"You will never be able to buy a house!  You will never be able to buy a new car!  Nobody will ever want to marry you!  You are a horrible human being, who will die alone without ever having made an impact except to make people hate you for how much money you borrowed for NOTHING!"

That's pretty depressing.  Or rather, it would be if you were the type of person who wanted nothing more out of life except to buy a house and a new car and get married.  I suppose that's most normal people.  Again, I'm not normal.

Ok, I would love to have my own house.  But not just ANY house.  I want something AWESOME, like one of these.  How cool would it be to live in an eco-friendly house, off the grid, that you built yourself? I would also much rather live in a place where I can walk, bike, or take public transportation.  I HATE paying for gas.  I hate having to stop and get gas.  I pretty much hate everything about having to use gasoline.  Except the smell.  I do love the smell of gasoline.  

And as for getting married and having a family, well, I can honestly say that has never been a priority, or even a desire, for me.  In fact, one of the reasons that I am in the debt that I am is because of a terrible relationship in which, among other things, neither of us knew anything about money.  But that's a story for another day.

I was going to share the links to these articles, but I think I will only share this one, for this woman.  I don't think the others are helpful at all.  There are many things that I believe in with everything I have, and here are a few of them relating to this situation:  personal responsibility, hard work, and compassion. We all make mistakes.  I believe many of us are taking responsibility for our mistakes.  Despite what others may believe, we actually don't need people to come up and tell us how stupid they think we are.  Not only are your opinions unhelpful and irrelevant, but they are nothing compared to what we are already doing to ourselves.

If you are one of these people who feel the need to inform us of our stupidity, because YOU never made the same mistake, congratulations.  Clearly you are superior in every way.  Your trophy is in the mail.  Now please go away and leave us alone.