I was enlisted in the military for 4 years. I made a lot of good friends, traveled overseas, read a lot of Stoic philosophy, and did a lot of growing up, and I

I was enlisted in the military for 4 years. I made a lot of good friends, traveled overseas, read a lot of Stoic philosophy, and did a lot of growing up, and I wouldn't give one bit of that experience up for the world. You'll probably never experience military life, and probably neither will she. Does that make your life any less of an experience? No. Finishing a degree online may not have given her the college experience you had, but that doesn't make the experiences that she did have any less meaningful or fulfilling, especially for a young teenage girl.