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What was your mindset like during that time period? It sounds almost adventurous, the way you wrote your post.
by viewer5 12y ago
What was your mindset like during that time period? It sounds almost adventurous, the way you wrote your post.
- buro9 12y agoI acted like it was an adventure because it was the only way to deal with what I was doing. I left home, to sleep on the street, without any money or possessions, until such a time (for as far as I could see into the future) that I could get my life to a better place. If I hadn't walked around a little in make-believe and "Scout on a quest" type mode, well... maybe I wouldn't be here. During the darkest days on the street I thought I wouldn't live to be 20. It still haunts a little today: perhaps I should have been dead (many times over)? By pretending it was an adventure then, and revising my personal history of it now to sound more adventurous (and less dull, traipsing on my own around cities), helps me to survive now.
- viewer5 12y agoWell I'm glad you're still here. Thanks for sharing.