Lessons Learned While Disabled & Homeless:

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This world does not care, and will ignore your efforts to seek help.

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You need to learn to help yourself, and follow through without telling anyone what your plans are, no matter what others may try to tell you.
Quite often, the person that listens becomes the rival that will stop you from accomplishing your stated goals while taking credit for your ideas, basking in glory that's rightfully yours.

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No matter how many agencies you go to for help, you are still just a number to them. It's simply how things are done, and no amount of attention-seeking whining will change that fact.

Final Thoughts:

Do the dirty work no one else wants to do, and don't bring attention to yourself. Disabled and homeless? No one cares, not even other disabled and homeless.

Are you succeeding in spite of the odds? Keep going, even when no one else notices your efforts. Are you disabled and needing medication to feel mentally fit to cope with this world's many conflicts? This world still doesn't care. Adapt and overcome.

If your life has hit a rough patch, like ours did for far too long, you can get back up and try again. I believe in second chances. Thanks to a few friends that have stuck by our side, we have found our second chance. We had to search for the opportunity and take responsibility for our lives. The links contained in the local and national assistance sections of this page are resources we've used to get our lives back on track. Feel free to use the resources here, no need to give us credit for providing the links. It would be appreciated, but is not necessary.

Keep going, no matter the odds against you or the obstacles in your way. You just might surprise yourself.

• Private opulence, public squalor:
  How the U.S. helps the rich and hurts the poor

Religion & Philosophy Will Not Save You
Take Responsibility For Your Life

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I am not God, the Creator.

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You are not God, the Creator.

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We all have our own path to take, and no amount of popular opinion should change our personal journey. Any decision you make is ultimately between you and whatever deity you believe in, as well as your conscience, and no human being has the right to judge you based on any puffed up sense of superiority or twisted morals.

Final Thoughts

I will not tell you what to believe or how to believe. That is your path to take. All I care about is whether or not you are a decent human being. We don't get to push a rewind button and redo portions of our life over again as though nothing happened. All we get to do is learn the lessons, and try again.

Additional Notes

I also do a bit of creative writing inspired by my journey, and am exploring the world of digital art with my wife. This is our outlet, our journey, and our online notebook. We share what we do in the name of free speech, free expression, and freedom of the press as well as the arts.