The scary thing is that those situations feel contrived to you. But to someone who is actually in that situation this is much closer to reality than you want t

The scary thing is that those situations feel contrived to you. But to someone who is actually in that situation this is much closer to reality than you want to believe. Sure, it's been crunched in in time a bit. But the end result is about the same. You can't pull yourself up by your own bootstraps when all your time and energy is spent desperately treading water.