Local Man: “Dropping My Daughter Off At University Is The Hardest Thing I've Ever Done Other Than Freeing Up Storage On My Email”

A local man has gone public about his struggle to accept his eldest daughter moving away for university. Danny Morrison penned a social media post lamenting the anguish he experienced while helping his daughter move into her university residence. This all took place after an already difficult year dealing with pop ups about a shortage of storage on his email.

“It was sometime last winter. Hazel was asking for help with applications and studying for exams and it hit me: She’s not a kid anymore. It's coming to an end,” Danny Morrison wrote on Facebook. “And then I would get this message that if I don’t free up space I would soon be unable to send or receive emails.” 

Morrison says he remembers looking his daughter in the eye as they parked the car at her dorm. He was telling her to have the time of her life and to fill her mind with as much knowledge as possible when something started to well up inside.

“She turned to me and asked what was wrong. I told her, ‘My emotions are out of whack these days, honey. I’m going to miss eating breakfast with you every morning and walking the dogs together, and I’ve also deleted the same video from my cloud three times and it keeps reappearing, which I’m pretty sure is why I’ve used 98% of my available storage.”

The post he wrote about his experience gained traction, making his page a meeting place for anyone enduring similar hardships.

One person wrote, ‘Eighteen summers fly by faster than we ever would have thought. We parents walk an unpaved road when it comes time to say goodbye. Hugs and smiles and warm wishes :)” And another said, ‘Listen, so long as your computer, phone and cloud are all synced, you're completely screwed.’

When Morrison found himself overwhelmed with twin crises, he knew he needed to get professional help.

“My therapist says my daughter moving away has been a colossal drain on my emotional threshold, and that the email storage issue is only the needle that broke the camel’s back,” Morrison said in an updated post. “But in my opinion the opposite could also be true.”  

 More than therapy, Morrison has especially found solace in speaking with an employee of The Source who explained that he had to unsync some of his devices in order to use email and store photos. At the time of publishing, Morrison had almost fixed the issue, but that employee has also now moved away for university.