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Jan. 21st, 2010 01:51 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sathorShow me a capitalist that has toiled in the pits of slavery, and I'll show you a being without a soul.
There is one other thing to add before I quit writing for tonight, likely.
Confucius also said that a superior man only surrounds himself with his equals (and superiors.)
I think, this has been a fact nearly my entire life, and likely a great reason why my circle has shrunken so much over the years. It may seem heartless, but one must be in control of their influences, lest they be taken down the wrong path. And I think, maybe, this has had something to do with whatever minute success I have had. That is to say, for someone without any friends left and living in rural pennsylvania, I've done pretty well. Of course, that will all change pretty directly.
I imagine going back to college quite a bit like getting smashed to bits. Wish I could find a different way to fund my life's purpose, but there doesn't appear to be any other. I don't mean getting smashed to bits because it will be above me...but because I won't be in control of what I'm being influenced by for a good long while.
There is one other thing to add before I quit writing for tonight, likely.
Confucius also said that a superior man only surrounds himself with his equals (and superiors.)
I think, this has been a fact nearly my entire life, and likely a great reason why my circle has shrunken so much over the years. It may seem heartless, but one must be in control of their influences, lest they be taken down the wrong path. And I think, maybe, this has had something to do with whatever minute success I have had. That is to say, for someone without any friends left and living in rural pennsylvania, I've done pretty well. Of course, that will all change pretty directly.
I imagine going back to college quite a bit like getting smashed to bits. Wish I could find a different way to fund my life's purpose, but there doesn't appear to be any other. I don't mean getting smashed to bits because it will be above me...but because I won't be in control of what I'm being influenced by for a good long while.
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Date: 2010-01-22 05:53 am (UTC)They are blue collar, have no comprehension of this, live paycheck to paycheck and I was lucky that they helped pay for half of my community college. They make over 60k together. Don't ask me about anything with regards to their finances - my mother got so far into debt credit card companies were calling daily for a year until they consolidated. Neither my father nor the rest of the family had any idea what it really all came from.
I made $1,000 at the first job I ever had, never saw any of it. There's other things that don't add up, but I don't trust my parents to be helpful in any of this anymore, because they aren't.
No, I don't pay rent. But I'll probably be getting kicked out soon enough anyway.
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Date: 2010-01-22 03:19 pm (UTC)1 hour of work at minimum wage in 1977 could have bought you 12 loaves of bread. Today it will buy you three.