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Wow I have had more constructive social interaction communicating here in the past half day than I have experienced in the past two years. Thank you hn! Im over
by happyconcepts 6y ago
Wow I have had more constructive social interaction communicating here in the past half day than I have experienced in the past two years. Thank you hn! Im overwhelmed in a good way. Even if it just lasts for half a day before I screw it up somehow, it's a welcome change.
So please let me express how much I appreciate the responsiveness from each of you who have read my comments and especially each of you who have responded. I get that it isnt easy talking with a homeless person, it isnt easy talking to a new profile on hn, etc. So I very much appreciate the courageous among y'all.
Please don't give up on me if you want the rest of the story its just that I didn't anticipate the response.
But from comments it's more important to me to say:
1. To whoever posted asking for advice because you are facing an impending homeless situation please do not wait for my response. Take the details you wanted to share with me and instead take those to 1 or 2 people you already know right now its a Saturday and see if you strike some sort of 'partnership' where each gets value and you stay housed. Think outside the box on this. Be sure to approach people you already know but if that number is too low then ask who they would ask for help. You see how your credibility gets thin once you move further from direct contacts so i would say focus on the people you know. Ask for help from those you already know and do it now while you still can. If everyone says no...ask them why not. Perhaps down the road you can come up with a different way they can help, a way that bypasses their previous objection. Geez I sound like a sales manager but its what I would if I were you. Dont give up no matter what.
2. The back-n-forth about chiropractors in the comments seems to illustrate the key bias impeding any real effort to solve the homelessness problem. Not all chiropractors are bad, just as not all homeless are bad. Whether you use Webster's or Michael Jackson's definition of bad I think what I say stands true.