Financial Challenges Support Group
This community is for people who are struggling to meet financial obligations of any kind. Financial challenges include everything from the day-to-day challenges of making ends meet to managing credit card debt to bankruptcy. Get support from others who are going through similar obstacles on the road back to financial stability.
I grew up in the U.S.A. I have been poor all of my life...I remember when as a child of about ten, I wore shoes so worn out that I tied string around them to keep the soles from falling off. The string I found lying on the side of a road. I seldom had more than one change of clothes, and those were the ones I had on. I was always hungry, dirty, in need of a haircut.
My parents weren't really parents...my family wasn't really a family...it was just a group of people who fought all the time...I lost contact with all of them...funny, I don't even know the birthdays of my brothers and sisters or where they live or if they survived.
I had no friends...other children had been told by their parents that "we don't associate with those kind of people"...the people who don't fit in.
Now I'm a grownup of 41. I try to look like a human being on the outside. I still don't belong anywhere. I have no job, no friends,...
I don't want sympathy. I don't know if I want anything. I just wish that I knew how to fit into the world.
Beaumont
My parents weren't really parents...my family wasn't really a family...it was just a group of people who fought all the time...I lost contact with all of them...funny, I don't even know the birthdays of my brothers and sisters or where they live or if they survived.
I had no friends...other children had been told by their parents that "we don't associate with those kind of people"...the people who don't fit in.
Now I'm a grownup of 41. I try to look like a human being on the outside. I still don't belong anywhere. I have no job, no friends,...
I don't want sympathy. I don't know if I want anything. I just wish that I knew how to fit into the world.
Beaumont
I have had a lot of money, and I have had my car run on fumes barely making it to the gas station, and all I care about now is being happy.
i never judged someone on what they have in their pocket, its what is inside what counts even if that sounds cheesy.
We are not what we own, and we are not the car that we drive. We are ALL special and so are you.
Can you try maybe joining a church or some group that has the same interests that you have? Don't be afraid, and think about therapy if that would help you. Many therapists will take you on a sliding scale/fee.
It is not about sympathy but it is about us having compassion and reaching out to others. I am sure there are people out there that would be willing to extend their hand to you in friendship.
Remember you count just as much as the next person.
Your friend,
EllaBlue
peace and love,
denise