Ok so I live in one of the southern states .... I am from a northern state in a rural area compared to the city that I currently live in. I have been here for approximately a decade ... give or take a couple of years.
Anyway, where I was from you never saw a homeless person or a junkie. Of course you heard about it - but it is something that took place in major cities... not in a small farming community. You might have had a friend who was kicked out of their house or a person that you knew that dabbled in drugs - but never anyone labeled officially by those titles.
Well here it is different. You have both your junkies who are homeless and your homeless who are junkies. Or they are just a junkie or just homeless. Also you have hookers that are both. These people like to panhandle or offer their "services" for sell.
I am sure that they all had dreams at one time - like any other person who dreams. Some big dreams that are too outrageous to ever happen - or some small practical dreams that are workable ... but some how the bottom fell out and they end up where they end up.
My dreams use to be outrageous when I was younger ... thinking I might be an actress, or meet a prince that would sweep me off my feet, or that some other impossible good fortune wind fall would happen. Sometimes now I have dreams that I will win millions in the lottery... but I have to be real ... My dreams are now practical ... get a job that will allow me to be home with the little one during the summer and holidays, a job that will offer a pay check that will assist in payment of the bills, a chance to get caught up and maybe save some money, just a chance to survive and live some what comfortable.
The job that I may have providing I pass all my testing is not my dream job... it does however all me to work with kids in a small way, provide a check, and the schedule I need. Like I have been saying sometimes you have to give something up in order to gain another thing that works better for your life situation.
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