Witnessing First Hand…
My third day running on empty, I figured I’d pushed my car (and my luck) far enough, so I finally stopped at a gas station to fill up my car. By the way, I continue to be grateful that it no longer takes $40.00 to fill up my car. I live in the North Florida area, in a good community, where it’s calm mix of suburbian and small city life. So, I was rooted to the spot when I witnessed this next scene.
Lugging two suitcases was a middle aged, Caucasian woman, flowing red-brown hair and a weathered complexion that told me she dealt with more than her fair share of curve balls. And she was wailing loud enough for the whole gas station to hear. It was not a petty temper tantrum nor can it be categorized as an uncouth public outburst. This woman was crying from the heart, and I could feel her fear and sense of desperation. She was walking with a slightly younger man, and he also had a suitcase in tow. He had a look of unapologetic resign on his face.
In the midst of her tears, they carried a loud, coherent conversation about how she’d lost her job and her home, and she has nowhere to go, and she doesn’t know what she’s going to do. In fact, it was a question she kept repeating as they both walked to the gas station where I was standing. “What I’m I going to do? I have no place to go!” My eyes met with the man’s briefly, and closed to offer a silent prayer for them and all the Americans who are forced out of their homes.
Do you sometimes get that sense of panic? Like, when is it all going to be okay? Whether you are an Ivy League entreprenuer whose invested her life savings in a business that didn’t take off or if you’ve been forced out of retirement-out of the ‘daily grind’ for so long that you just don’t know what are appropriate next steps? Or perhaps you are just a twenty/thirty something who’s just been blindsided by the dearth of jobs.
Please share your thoughts.
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