Life Can Suck.

Based on my interactions yesterday with a few NLFW recipients, life’s circumstance can suck.

Without going into too much detail on the two women that I met and helped out with routine things yesterday, I can’t imagine their what the rest of their lives will be like.

For one woman who is dealing with the remnants of a stroke not any older than my own mother living alone who cannot even take her own trash out. Can you imagine not being able to work the trash shoot door at your apartment complex because you can hold the door down and throw the trash in with the same arm? Having to deal with that fact, what do you do then?

How about the other woman who couldn’t even get her groceries into her house? She called at 11pm the other night distraught because she barely made it in with what she could get. After helping her out yesterday, she proceeds to tell me about her daily challenges for 20 minutes. What does she do?

Something has to change. We all have to change. We all must begin helping in ways we never thought we would ever have to help. We all need this for our own well being.

I’m determined of this.

We can no longer marginalize people by pushing them aside because they don’t fit our busy lives. We need to stop striving for what the world tells us to strive for and start striving for something different. In these folks case, they need someone to strive for them.

I will say that these two women have the resilience to push on despite their situation. They don’t need us every day all day, they need us to maintain their dignity and assist them when they ask. They just need to know you’re there to assist when they ask.