I'm grateful that you can hold that debt for me another while Dave. As you wrote, it's not ideal for me to pay it back now, but if you didn't get that job I would have insisted that you take it, because I don't know when I can exercise those stock options [context: David loaned me money to acquire vested stock options from a startup I worked for], and it would have been very sour if you were in a spot and me here doing "my projects". Sometimes I imagine my life with children and I become afraid, because alone facing scarcity is relatively easy, but with children that must be something else. If, for any reason that job fell through, I would insist on paying back what I owe and more.
I'll sound like Óscar (my neighbour with intellectual disability) when I would tell him about my financial afflictions, he would say "Don't worry about that, I would sell everything I have for you, and if you were left homeless I would host you", I would reply to him "your home is covered in dog's feces, and everything inside it is worthless Óscar". Ok, in truth I would tell him "Thanks Óscar", and the rest I would only think about. But in practical terms, I would ask for money from someone else in order to alleviate you, because my lacking if much easier to endure than yours, with children.
David is another person who came up recurrently during my brief walk. I left to walk without replying the email in which he told me it was OK to repay him later. I walk thanks to him, yet I delay my gratitude. I still have a couple of more letters to write out before I leave.
Payments have not come through yet. I have to pick up my residency card mid-week. It's looking like I'll have to wait towards the end-ish of the week to begin my walk.