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I seriously loosing all hope.

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#1
02-12-2010, 11:50 PM
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I'm seriously loosing all hope and about to give up on the idea that i will ever get it.
I read all these articles every year and keep my hopes up, but at the end nothing ever falls through. Another year passes without... answers.
Even if i wanna go back, i have no friends or family back in my country.
I wouldn't able to fit in. I never visited back home ever since my family left.
That was more then 10 years ago.
Getting green card or citizenship has always been the problem but it never made me get this depressed. I just turned 21.. I get jealous(& angry) seeing all my friends moving forward with their lives..like finding a career, attending school without worrying about tuition, being able to travel,
JUST BEING ABLE TO DO WHATEVER THEY PLAN TO DO....
Their future is so bright.
I just get angry thinking about "citizenship problem" and how it held me back from so many opportunities i could have experienced. And it will continue to do so until something happens...I just hate the fact that i have no control over anything.
I just feel like I'm living under water. Do you guys feel the same ?

woah... i feel little better. lol. i just needed someone to talk to. all my friends were born here so they would never understand how i feel. and it is also uncomfortable & embarrassing to share something like this with friends. Thank you guys for listening. I will try not to complain so much anymore. hhahahhaha
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Of course : )

You are not alone. We are together in this. But we're still young and there's still so much time and so many things waiting for us to experience. We'll be able to enjoy life at its fullest when the time comes around. We will be able to find joy in the most subtle of things, like a "welcome home" from an ICE officer when returning from a trip abroad.
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You know, I don't think I'll ever see an ICE officer with welcoming eyes. Even after getting status. Haha.
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Lol. I totally can relate to the OP. And hang in there, no matter what happens, the situation can only get better..Once you've hit rock bottom, you can only come up.

Although I will say, I feel like aging myself about 5 years sometimes, just to see where I will be..Instead of living day to day trying to escape reality.
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You know, I don't think I'll ever see an ICE officer with welcoming eyes. Even after getting status. Haha.
Ditto. I'll never look at the cops the same way again after having to go through a road block on NYE. We were going to get groceries, and hit one on the way home in the afternoon! Scariest shit ever. Thankfully, my Mom had on her scrubs from work and he just let us go through without even asking to see anything.

sabr1na1st, we all get frustrated from time to time with our limitations. But, for me at least, it's comforting to know that I'm not alone. That's why I'm still a member here. Keep your head up and check out some of the posts on DAP. We're not as limited as we think. I'm having trouble finishing my last year of school because of money, but I'm looking past that to what I can do in the mean time. Have you thought of volunteering, internships?

It's tough, I know. A lot of people that I knew in college have graduated and moved on to work in their fields of choice or pursue higher degrees, while I still can't finish my Bachelor's. Not to mention all of the legal immigrants that I know that are pretty much pissing away their opportunities doing nothing.

What are you studying in school/want to study?
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I've been there and back. I have also been waiting for the DA since 2003! I was able to go to school for about two years but hit a roadblock because of lack of financial aid and money. In retrospect I could have gotten a side job or something but I didn't. Right now I am having finding work so I don't know what to do about that. I"m really involved in my Church and that helps me out too.
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sabr1na1st:, I can honestly say that I know EXACTLY how you feel. Total and utter despair. I've been here for 22 years, (brought here when I was only a few months old). You are absolutely correct that you, and others like you, have missed out on SO MANY OPPORTUNITIES. God damn, I am pissed that there are so many kids like me who are literally suffering. For me, it feels like torture at times. Mental anguish all the time. Seeing peers fluttering through life without a care or concern, and knowing that they will easily become prosperous and happy, while you, just as worthy and capable, may never achieve the same fulfillment. FOR FUCK'S SAKE, I AM SO SICK OF THIS LIFE!

I too can't "go back" for there is NOTHING to go back to. Sure, I can go to school. But I have to take 3 buses and a train both ways for a total daily commute of about 4-5 hours, and then apply myself to studying and achieving excellent grades - all for the likely eventuality that it will ALL BE FOR NOTHING.

There is NO SOCIAL LIFE whatsoever. Home is a prison. There is NO INDEPENDENCE.

Throughout the world there are incidences of groups of people being forsaken, thrown by the wayside, left to wallow in poverty for generations. We fall into that category, though it can be described as more cruel, for we live lives of torment in THE WEALTHIEST FUCKING NATION ON THE FACE OF THE PLANET. We live in the place where those other suffering people wish to come, and yet there is no hope.

There will be no DREAM Act.
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yeah me too...been there....good thing you can express urself . but you know what, if you just keep thinking about depressing stuff, you're not going anywhere...you'll end up blaming things..n that can get you paranoid or sumthing. i dont blame my parents or anybody else. i just do wat i can, and do wat i gotta do u kno...simple as that (*whn thers a cop..i hide...whn people start asking stuff...i just make up stories..haha)... being angry,depress, sad and despair...they're just state of mind... patient, not-giving-up & do-the-best...also state of mind.....at the end..everything is up to u...* haha i talk like one of those self-help book hahaha...anyway..cheers
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My life sucks too.
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I feel you %100. But hold tight my friend.

Stay strong and be hopeful..!!
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