Yes, I still have the dream of one day being a thousandaire. It's made me humble though. When you live in the trailer park, people really do cling to their guns and their religion. Old people with cancer they can't treat, walking around the trailer park in their bra and shorts, reading the bible all day with a shotgun on the porch, watching tv in a trailer with no AC, waiting to die. So depressing. I don't take anything for granted. I'm blessed to be living like this now and I thank God every day.
My friend...it is so true. I have these thought now laying inthe hosp.
When I was in clinic as a student, I worked in the Salvation Army half way house...where I had to do physical on many inm,ates just being released from prison.
You could tell many were lifetime thugs...they'd be back,.
One guy..though, I read through his chart and he was a CEO of a big company...lost it all, gambling, drugs, crime, all kinds of crazy stuff.
Lost his family.
I thought I was a hot shot, and kind of imperiously asked him (a tone I would never again take on), "How the Hell did YOU end up here...?)
As I was walking away, he grabbed my smock, and said words I since have not forgotten:
"Young man, we are all (puts finger and thumb one inch apart) this close to pushing a shopping cart,.
Truer words never spoken