Je m'en trompe.

[sauvin]

You know, life is tough. It just blows all over the place

Comments

[batshua]

I have no children to feed, no wife to have to try to comfort as all this shit goes down. Nobody’s physical survival directly depends on mine.

Meaning, if I fail to face my demons, if no employer ever looks in my direction favourably, I go alone.

You have no children to feed nor wife to comfort, but you do have close and dear friends who care about you very much. *Maybe* nobody else's physical survival is at stake, maybe not. I would argue that emotional survival and physical survival are intimately connected in the cases of at least a few of the people we know.

I'm not going to lecture further at this time; I'm sure you know the rest of what I was going to say anyway.

[vivavirginmary]

I had a friend who killed himself. I don't want to make assumptions about your suicidal thoughts, but NOTHING justifies them. No one, no matter who they are deserves to die, least of all you. I don't know you, but what you wrote here really moved me. Your compassion for others in situations similar to your (pretty fucking desperate), and your modesty to say that your problems are nothing compaired to theirs, is beautiful.

When my friend died, I thought the pain would kill me. It's not worth it.

And fuck America and it's fucking capitalism. In Australia you'd be eligible for a pension because of your hearing loss and the fact that you've been unemployed for such a period of time. Everyone deserves to live, and people don't just stop earning money because they're lazy. Everyone deserves to have even a minimal wage from a governmental service if they can not get an income from another source.

[sauvin]

I've been struggling with this bitch for most of my 45 years, and I know damn well I'm not a "tard". We all have problems, sometimes rather severe ones, and not all of them can be seen or even described well. I DON'T claim I don't have serious problems - what I DO claim is that comparing their severity against somebody else's makes little sense

[vivavirginmary]

I know you didn't say that your problems compare to those people you described, I'm saying I think they compare. Everyone's problems are just as valid if it makes them feel bad, or threatens their well being. And yours seem to do both.

Hope this helps your friends though. And good luck with finding a job.

[batshua]

I'm going to go over his head and approve it whether he does or not. ;-p

*jumps at the chance*

But... yeah, let's wait and see what happens this evening, or the next day and see if he responds.

Off the HOH community

[brian_dmessiah]

Thats your CV? Whats stopping you from going for a job in a fast food place anyway? I worked at one and even with my hearing problem i got on fine. Im deaf on one side anyway, and pretty iffy on the other. The only thing i found unbearable was the heat. There's nothing stopping you from flipping burgers or frying chips (yes chips), you will hear the stuff fine. What will you be missing? The occasional Big Mac order? All you need to do is make sure the cashiers get some sort of confirmation from you that you heard the order. Whats stopping you from pushing trolleys or packing bags at your local Walmart? I worked with 2 people, including one woman, who must have been in their 70's, and they were the hardest workers there. That was a supermarket by the way, where i pushed trolleys and so did they. These jobs wont make you any happier, heck im sure they will start making you think abut the type of rope to use, but what job wouldn't? Even the chief exec has problems he doesn't know how to deal with

Re: Off the HOH community

[sauvin]

I'm of the impression one doesn't send Walmart or Burger King a CV.