Being There With Mom Was Much More Important Than The Trip Of A Lifetime

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From and Credits to: Awkward_Dog

"When I was doing my PhD, I got offered the chance to go to the Central European University summer school programme to do a course that would have been extremely valuable. I even got offered a full scholarship to do the course, and free accommodation etc. A really amazing deal.

"Two weeks before I was supposed to leave, I said to my boyfriend at the time, something is telling me I shouldn't go. And I was like, 'WTF brain, this is the opportunity of a lifetime.' But the 'don't go' feeling kept getting stronger. So I withdrew from the course, feeling stupid for doing it.

"The day after I was scheduled to leave, my perfectly healthy mom got sick. A week later she was in a coma, a week later we had to turn off life support. Her funeral was a week after that. I would have been away in her last waking moments."

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