Dream//Reality

Once again, my inability to foresee the future has caused another mishap in the stream of what was suppose to be "the plan." I've been planning for months now to get a Nikon D5000, and I've been viciously saving up my money in order to make this plan, or dream might I say, a reality. But life likes to throw curve balls, and every time life throws a curve ball at me, I infallibly strike out. Recently it has come to my attention that my brother is struggling financially, to the point where he can't even go to school this coming Fall semester, because he could not make the payments on time. He could not pay last month's rent, and now, the credit card companies are calling up a storm. In fear of my parents, he has kept all of this from them. Perhaps it's shame, or guilt. Either way, he refuses to tell them. He didn't even have the guts to confront me about it, his girlfriend had to tell me. So now, instead of dishing out 800 big ones for the camera of my dreams, I will, in confidence, hand over the money to my brother, so that he can save his credit. For now, my camera can be sacrificed, my brother's future on the other hand, can not. Sigh.