northernlights (1000+ posts) Sun Sep-06-09 09:45 AM
Response to Reply #4
18. Poverty is relative
When you've gone along for a lifetime, working hard and prosperous, and suddenly find yourself helplessly watching everything you've worked for disappearing. Not to an act of nature, not a hurricane or fire or tornado or earthquake. But blatantly stolen by TPTB. Your life stolen. The people around you that once were your peers now avoid you, look away when they pass you in the street, screen your phone calls, don't return messages, don't reply to your emails, while your life and everything that was you circles down the drain...
It doesn't matter that people in Africa or India or someplace a world away have less than you.
It's that you no longer even exist in your own world.
I understand too well where this man is at. I've felt that level of rage rising with each new insult, each new theft. I'm not there yet...but close enough to know that could be me someday.
Bull ****ing shit on all that.
Back in the early 80s was trying to make a go of it here as a dairy farm but without boring folks with the details I discovered it wasn`t going to work
In short I failed but in doing so I learned a lot about life and now am comfortable.
Yes there has been some good fortune along the way and some bad same as everyone else has.
Quit crying,open your eyes to learn and grow the **** up DUmbass.
