When I filed for bankruptcy years ago, I thought my world was crumbling. I'd look at my friends, family, co-workers and think 'I want to be financially stable, like them'. Turns out, half of the ones I'd have traded boots with in a heartbeat were worse off than I was when I filed.
Today I discovered that one of those I envied had to file for Chapter 13 last month. This person takes home over three thousand dollars a paycheck and he's in over his head.
For the next five years he'll be bringing home less than nine hundred dollars a check. (For the next five years!?)
His earning potential is four times that much and it's already spent.
Woa.
Still, it just tells me what I already knew: We're all equally stupid.
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