You know, "no matter how bad you've got it there's always somebody out there who's got it worse", that's what iv'e been telling myself for years in order to pull myself together whenever i was feeling down, but that doesn't work any more, now, my story may not be as bad as some posted here, but it's pretty damn bad nonetheless, for even as i write this i'm one day away from being homeless, and that's just the tip of the iceberg, i haven't had a job since 1998, i haven't had my own place(technically)since 2001, when the economy was booming for everybody else me and my family were struggling like hell, living in a car in rest stops, and bouncing around California, living in homeless shelters and getting help from people every now and then, in 2003 we were lucky enough to have a place to stay at my mothers house, it turned out good for both parties because she was sick and we needed a place to stay, so we were helping each other,she died in 2004,and we struggled to keep the house but lost it in 2006,and once again we were homeless,at that time my family split up, one child stayed behind in order to graduate from high school, one child went to Washington State to live with relatives, and the other child went with me and my wife to live in Las Vegas with my sister, at that point i was feeling optimistic,i was told that Vegas was a booming city with plenty of work so i was eager to get there and get back on my feet, and for about the first four months everything was looking up, then i got laid off, and since i got laid off one day short of the first quarter i couldn't get unemployment benefits, and it wasn't long after that my wife and daughter left Vegas, and iv'e stuck here for four years, my sister is a drug addict and as a result iv'e had to move three times in the last four years, which brings us to today, as of tomorrow i will have no place to go, i want to get the fuck outta here so bad, but i have a bit of a dilemma,i need to get my car registered being as everything i own is in it, but i don't have a dime, and i don't have anywhere to keep it until i can come back for it, and as of tomorrow the owner is gonna want it off his property and being as it's not registered once i park it on the street it's gonna get towed so, i'm fucked either way, and at this point i don't really have anybody to turn to, i would pray if i thought it would do any good but i really don't think it will, now, this may not seem that bad to some people and maybe i am making things seem worse than they are, but it sure feels like hell from where i'm standing, i don't know, you tell me... | |
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