They say that trying is the hardest thing of all. Well. I don't really know who they are or who really says this but I think I may or may not have actually heard it somewhere before quite possibly. But the point is that I believe it. Wholeheartedly. Just trying is SO HARD.
The economy has really taken a turn for the worse. Everyone is affected. When customers ask me all I say to them is, "It's about the same for everybody." But its not. I took a "promotion" to move up here. I wouldn't trade it for the world but it has been hard as hell on me. Especially on my pocket.
Take your Passion and make it happen...
In an attempt to grow the F up and become and adult I figured that if I took a move that took me this far away from my parents I would be forced to fully understand what it means to be independent and live on my own. It has been a quite humbling experience to learn that I could just not afford to do it on my own. With the help of my parents I have managed to avoid getting to the point of bill collectors and terribly bad debt, but only by a hair.
Now I'm dancing for my life...
All the people around me are in the same boat. For the longest time it felt like I was on my own. I was one of the only ones that was figuring out just how late you can pay a bill and get away with it. I thought I was on my own when I got eviction threats at my last apartment complex because I had not paid the rent on the day that it was due. I was glad to find that in Massachusetts it is a state law that the rent is not considered late until it is paid after the last day of the month. So if it is seemingly due on October 1st, then it is not officially late until September 1st. This was not something that I should have found out about. I got in pretty deep and had to move out of that complex in order to make attempts to be able to catch up with the other bills that were piling up.
I'm pretty much at a point where I am breaking even now, but it is a constant struggle. It has become a constant sickness in the pit of my stomach thinking about the pending bills that I have. The economy is going down the drain. People are having less and less money, and bills and gas prices keep going up. I don't get it. Adulthood ain't what its cracked up to be. That's fo sho!
What a Feeling.
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