> I often wonder - could I go back there and help? I have more money now, I know more, etc. I'm originally from a small rural community in southeastern Ohio. I

> I often wonder - could I go back there and help? I have more money now, I know more, etc. I'm originally from a small rural community in southeastern Ohio. I've often had the same thought. I think I could help, genuinely, but I think there's a problem of acceptance there that I don't know if I could break through at this point. I've been gone for nearly 20 years. I don't really know that community any more. I wonder sometimes if I ever did. Maybe it's just my own ignorance or arrogance or naivety. Because I also don't know my adopted community of SoCal, either. > the world doesn't care about you, or me. Indeed. TFA and this comment thread reminds me of the Bukowski poem, "The Crunch." "...people are just not good to each other."