Saturday, August 14, 2004

When is it enough?

I have often come to a discerning point in my life and thought, "Okay, what the heck? Where do I go now? What do I have to do to become what I ought to become?" Pictured above is one of my favorite despair posters. As it fully encompasses a negative and degrading view of a despairing scenario it simultaneously puts into perspective that my life ain't all that bad.

I just got off the phone with some crazy lady who needs housing tonight. This is not the first nor will it be the last time she calls this church with a desperate, shaky voice to exclaim her need for help...for a handout. But this woman in her sixties is plagued with an epidemic that ceases control over most of our society. She wants but is not willing. She will go to whatever extent she must to make her life seem awful and scarred, but she is in no form willing to call the local halfway house for a temporary residence because it remains "below" her. Consequently, she remains in the street for the night.

Supposedly we must be able to help ourselves. And as this woman exemplifies, we are the hindrance of ourselves. So it remains true...not everyone gets to be an astronaut when they grow up...who's fault is that?
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