cross (somebody has) to carry

A difficult responsibility or burden that someone must handle on his or her own. I really don't want to take out student loans, but it's the cross I have to carry in order to further my education.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Maquinna	-	Native American, Nuu-chah-nulth
Vishal	-	Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, Punjabi, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Bengali
Alphonso	[æl'fɔnsəu]
Yuuka	yoo:-kah	Japanese
Noble	['nəubl]
Naz	-	Turkish