Nowhere is it written that you are supposed to be blameless. It's good to reflect upon oneself and see where there's room for improvement. But allow for the fact that you're human. You'll never in your life be doing everything right.

The social safety net will never be woven fine enough to catch every problem. I'll bet that's not even being done in Norway (where social services are probably the most lavishly funded.) Never will there be quite enough resources invested. Never will case managers not be spread too thin over too large a case load. There will always be lots of human distress. Attempts to ameliorate it will always fall short. I'm not a defeatist; that is the reality of the human condition. I don't think anyone ever really succeeds in making the world a better place. But here and there you can make something better than what it was. There's victory in that. To be able to say you sincerely tried is to say much. I am daily amazed at how diligently so many go to work day after day and try to do a good job. Most jobs do involve a great deal of tedium. But people persevere and they just keep on trying as best they can. Some people do as little as they can get away with doing. But so many do what is asked of them and they pick up the slack left by the shirkers. Every day all the garbage gets picked up . . . all the shelves at the supermarkets get stocked . . . the streets get sweeped . . . and so on and so on. It's a lot of work. Those with existential angst wonder: "What is it all for in the end?" Whoever has the intelligence to raise that question must answer it for himself. Your guess is as good as mine and as good as anyone else's. No advanced degree in philosophy will equip the person who has it to likely make a better guess than the guy you see cleaning the bathrooms at Walmart's.

Well I guess that got tangential. But I'm sorry about the logistical holdup to you registering for school. So, when one avenue gets closed off, you have to plot a different route. Look over your remaining options and see if one of them holds some appeal.