The homeless people I’ve talked to with broken limbs and teeth who can’t afford to get treatment didn’t seem happy at all except for the fact that they were getting a slight amount of aid and human connection from the organization I was working with. One of the ones I talked to was on their way to the convenience store to buy alcohol to cope with their injuries.
Driving Uber has been such a sobering exposure to the unfathomable levels of bullshit so many people are dealing with. It’s so, so much. Once you lose your footing for half a second, you’re going to bounce and drag along the bottom indefinitely.
Yeah, it’s not all sunshine and puppy dogs. The point is to get some perspective on one’s own life and to not focus on the “woah, that’s so fucked up” parts of other people’s experiences.
Are you suggesting that no one you met or saw experienced anything positive at all? No one had even a second of joy in their lives?
The homeless people I’ve talked to with broken limbs and teeth who can’t afford to get treatment didn’t seem happy at all except for the fact that they were getting a slight amount of aid and human connection from the organization I was working with. One of the ones I talked to was on their way to the convenience store to buy alcohol to cope with their injuries.
Driving Uber has been such a sobering exposure to the unfathomable levels of bullshit so many people are dealing with. It’s so, so much. Once you lose your footing for half a second, you’re going to bounce and drag along the bottom indefinitely.
Yeah, it’s not all sunshine and puppy dogs. The point is to get some perspective on one’s own life and to not focus on the “woah, that’s so fucked up” parts of other people’s experiences.
Are you suggesting that no one you met or saw experienced anything positive at all? No one had even a second of joy in their lives?