Being Poor

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Through luck, my parents' and grandparents' hard work, and mostly minor effort of my own, I've never had to experience being poor. I bitch and whine about not having a shiny new kitchen, but Vincent and I are (like everyone reading this) well off compared to those who have no computer, desk, house, or job.

I just read a post John Scalzi wrote a few years back and it totally made me cry. Especially some of the comments.

I've been extra emotional recently so I shouldn't have been reading this in class probably.

Being Poor.

Comments

[bonoboboy.livejournal.com]

I've intimately known some of these in my own childhood, though thankfully not nearly all of them. The one that got to me the most was actually in the comments:

"Growing up poor is spending the rest of your life trying to escape (and never realizing that you have)."