I'm pretty new to the blogging thing so I'm not sure what to say. I guess the worst thing that I and others on Aidpage have is frustration. After reading the pages of others, I guess I'm in pretty good shape. All thing considered. But that does not relieve frustration that comes with living on the edge. I'm less than a pay check away from disaster at any given time. Ok, I'm just not used to that. I had good paying jobs, plenty of cash in the account and lived a good life. Then, in the flash of an instant, the time it takes for a piece of paper to be pushed across a table, everything changed. All I knew was gone and the life of hardship began. I have done the best I could with the situation but no one says I have to like it. We started over in a different state and changed our lives to hopefully make things better. The Lord has indeed provided us with things we need but I seems to me like an on going test of our faith. We've made many changes to how we live. I do draw a good salary and I'm so very gratefull to have a job. That to can be gone in flash as people all around me are being laid off seemingly ever day. I guess the one thing that frustrates me the most is the lack of caring by society as a whole. By the government, by the media (who virtually hasn't cover the depression) and even by others in the same situation. I don't know what to exspect from society but some type of reaction seems in order. People are losing their lives, their houses, their cars and even their families as this depression gets deep. People take on the every man for himself mentality and to heck with everything else. I don't think this is what God wants. True, there are pockets of people who have stuck together but overall, it seems like we as a society are reverting back to medieval times; we're becoming wondering nomads and scavengers. I understand the feeling the though. If you're without a home, being threatened by eviction or foreclosure, without food, without family and no where to go, I can see grasping at the walls on the way down. I guess that's human nature: self preservation/defense mechanism built in by God to allow us to survive. Where is the relief? I don't know but I don't think there is any. Kind words are plentfull but they won't pay the bills. I'll repeat what I've stated in my 'About' section: if you're a white, anglo saxon protestant Christian male with a job, there's no help and everyone seems to hate you. Societies throughout time have picked out a color, race, sex or national origin and persecuted those people saying, "These people are the source of our problems and hardship." But history has shown that's not true. Yet we still do it because it's easy and it's a way to make ourselves feel better about things. Changing our government will not work either. We still have the best government in the world. It's allowed us to become the richest and most powerfull nation in the world. And yes, the most hated at the same time. Let's all just remember that this planet is smaller than we think nowdays and we all have to live together on it. Nothing changes overnight but over time, things can and will change. I think what I'll do is investigate further each of the subjects in this first blog and write about each one. Maybe I can learn something new, maybe I can help or at least explain why societies react the way we are reacting today.
