JoB
here we go again…
if there is a wide gap between those who have in our society.. and those who work hard to have something…
there seems to be an even wider gap between those who work hard to have something and those who may also work hard and still have nothing.
Ok.. that was a diplomatic way to say that although some of you may think your financial situations were tough.. and you wised up and changed them.. you have no idea what tough is.
What if you have already given up the coffees and the dinners out and the new clothes… and the car… and the new furniture… and… ?
what if you have never purchased anything new in your life… bought everything second hand… didn’t splurge… never took a vacation… don’t drink.. don’t drive… take your own lunch… etc… and you still don’t have the money to do anything other than rent.. and often share rentals at that… ?
Yup, you can be a hardworking person in our society and live exactly that life… barely scraping together enough money to exist.. and hope against hope that nothing happens to make it impossible for you to work.. even for a week or two… because there is no safety net.. no savings… no family.. no friends…
now imagine you are living like that and raising children as well…
or… imagine you are older.. on a fixed income that doesn’t rise with inflation… yet food, rent, medications.. just keep going up.
Imagine you had spent most of your adult life making a home and raising an family and your husband decides he would like a newer and younger model and by the way he doesn’t want the responsibility of raising a family…
Oops… life just changed. You just became poor because he didn’t honor the commitments he made that you made your life choices based on…
Imagine you are working and prospering… and one day you get ill.. and they can’t figure out what is wrong.. and you don’t die and you don’t get better and you are way to sick to work.
Now imagine that the disability insurance you paid for determines that your condition is psychological… in spite of your having no history of psychological illness.. because there is no definitive physiological test for your illness.
Oops.. your life just changed.. all because you got ill and your insurance didn’t cover you the way it was supposed to.
What some of you don’t seem to understand is that you can make good choices.. you can prosper.. you can do everything right… and still s..t happens…
Your company gets bought out.. the economy tanks and suddenly you find yourself without a job… you fall off the waterski and puncture your lung as you land.. suddenly narrowing your options…
life happens…
and it can happen to you as easily as to the rest of us…
no matter how well you make our choices.