National Public Radio...
A visionary (audio...ary?) in all things...public? Well, they managed to upset me for the first time a week or two ago. They spend hours and hours with political debates, discussions, questions, the works...and not once have the strung forth any emotion from me. No, not because I am just that way. Rather, because I've never been one for politics so I just really don't care. Why I listen is beyond me.
Anyhow, I was listening to them on my quiescent drive from Reno, NV to Fallon, NV and they had a story to tell. I won't say the name of the lady in the story simply cause I forgot already, but I will say that if I ever meet her, I will be more than happy to express my opinion in that case directly to her...an orange a day. PUH!
So her story goes like this:
She was very successful. She had a partnership with some book store or something but due to our (America's) "terrible economic standing" she had lost her job. Now, upon losing her job she had absolutely no other outlet to fall back on. She was out of the job for six whole months! She lost her house and eventually had to resort to scrounging up what she can by house sitting for her friends and "couch surfing" as she said, clearly smiling as she said so. One of the points they stressed was how she had to resort to putting all her belongings on a wheeled rack that she would wheel as she made her way from place to place. It even got SO bad, people, that there was one day that all she had to eat for the entire whole 24 hours...was an orange!
Well excuse me if I don't feel sorry for you, your orange, and all your possessions, miss, but did I miss something here? Is this woman really so blind to the truth of things that she forgets that there are people in this world that are forced to do things that are ordinarily unimaginable just to get a SLICE of an orange? Or even a tangerine?
Did she and the rest of us forget that there are people in this world digging through compost piles hoping to find at least one thing they can refer to as a "possession"?
Wake up and see us for what we have really become.
I agree, things are worse than they usually are. I am a victim of poor times just like so many others are, but I am not sharing my story with you people hoping to get some sympathy votes from strangers because I've had nothing but an orange a day.
It's pitiful how bad we think we have it. And again, yes I see how bad things are compared to before, but imagine how saintly they are compared to the people with real problems.
As I said I have been a victim of this "crisis" for 3 months now, but tomorrow is a new day, a new hope, and I will wake up with the drive needed, and go look for a JOB. If I have to, I will swallow my pride and work at a McDonalds. But you better believe I am the last person who will tell my story on the radio...
At least she was able to speak with a smile.
I spit on her, and NPR for supporting it.
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