2 years, 2 months and 2 days ago I began slowly paying off over $14,000 in debt. That number doesn't even seem real to me. It was real though, a combination of medical bills, credit cards & payday loans. And shame, lots & lots of shame.
Meeting Adam helped motivate me to look at the debt unflinchingly, & acknowledge it without the shame. I started paying it off bit by bit. I knew I wanted it all paid off before we got married. Tonight we drove to Boulder to pay the last $82 to the library, & just like that I'm debt free.
"Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report written on birds that he'd had three months to write, which was due the next day. We were out at our family cabin in Bolinas, and he was at the kitchen table close to tears, surrounded by binder paper and pencils and unopened books about birds, immobilized by the hugeness of the task ahead. Then my father sat down beside him put his arm around my brother's shoulder, and said, "Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird." - Anne Lamott
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