-Hey! Whats up! Long time no see!
-I know eh!?? How are you...? Where have you been??
-Aghh you know..here and there... How are things going on your side?
-Nah..the usual, school, boyfriend, blah blah. But heyy...what about you?? We used to talk remember? Where have you been?
-Aghh... i was a student in Grayrain Province remember? But you know... money was an issue.. I was so stressed... Not able to eat properly, like couldn't afford to even go for normal weekly groceries... Stressed about appearance.. Stressed that I had nothing to wear sometimessss! and ha...you know how that is when you are young and pretty and you used to receive a certain type of comments about your style etc..
So...had some type of social stress as well... Aghh not able to socialize with friends properly... "Cant come have dinner tonight with you guys, I am busy I have to study!!" Bullllllshit...Ending up spending hours on the internet to find a way to earn money instead of studying... Losing any interest for school cause your life (social, personal) isnt the same anymore...
Aghhh money.. And then you tell yourself... Mm i am gonna use my credit card to go out with my friends, so that I don't have to bail out AGAIN, just once, only once. And then...once becomes twice..and then twice becomes everyday and you end up using money that was never yours through that plastic "miracle" called credit card.
And a month a later you receive the "letter". Ooooh yeah.. THE letter. Ouffff you dont even wanna open it. You place it on your desk, telling yourself you will open it when youre less stressed. But..you dont even HAVE to open it. Cause you know whats in it. But you keep on fooling yourself that it doesn't exist. Then when the time comes... All your debit account has been emptied. And not because you've spent it. But because that plastic miracle sucked it all up, without giving you a notice off course. And why would it? You borrowed "its" money, when you knew you weren't able to pay it back, not anytime soon anyways.
And then you have no money no chocho like my Haitian friend used to say... Cause whenever you deposit $ in your debit account, the plastic miracle is authorized to eat it up. But...you dont know that.
And there comes the time to pay your rent... But.."zero" has now become your new best friend. You see it everywhere, in your bank accounts, in your pockets, in your purse, even in your dreams. Mmm yeah, now you are able to focus and study. You are soo deeply motivated to focus and do well at school. So you borrow from your friends. And you do the mistake to borrow a looot. Cause they offered a lot. Cause they are your friends. And they trust you.
And the time passes... You decide that you have to leave the Grayrain province cause university cant accept you with no money and ...low grades. It doesnt care if the no money situation you were in caused you to not study and put you in an even more no money situation plus debt. You take your pride and start for the Promising Province.
You struggle. You stay at a hostel at first. You try to find a job and an apartment at the same time. No income flowing, but lots of expenses coming out of your pocket...Uhmmm let me rephrase that: your mommas pocket. You find an apartment.. Oufff what a relief. You get all happy and excited and kind of tell yourself you need a break from stress... Bills and expenses yeah are still running... Still chasing your ass.
So you decide to try and find a job. Lots and lots of applications. Ohhhhh yeah babaaay keep them flowwwwing. TOns of them. Millions. Zillions, Gazillions. But hey....you get a few offers, but you quickly realize the only job offers you got were either scams or you just didnt qualify at the end. What a luck. Mmmm not luck so much, I would say. So..... what do you do? Wait and wait, even decide to go to a local library to borrow resume books to update your resume. You do that. Spend nights working on your new CV. You re-apply. No-thi-ng.
Anddd then....there goes the bus strike! Ohhh yeah, cause bus drivers of the promising city of the promising province decide they dont get paid enough..sooo lets do a bus strike. No buses. No way you can go to any interviews! Great. A week goes by and the whole promising city is in the merci of the bus strike. A second week goes by. And a third one. A whole month. And another week. And another.
Till you get so fed up of waiting that you decide to contact your friends from the Diverse Province to help you move your bootay out of 'Promising' province. And it happens. And you spend two weekends back and forth promising and diverse provinces trying to find a new apartment, a new life. And you do. And everything seems all shiny and glittery at the beginning. You are happy, excited for another new beginning you've made, your way up to your goal mountain seems a little bit easier now.
And there it begins. It feels safer, warmer. But you've lost everything. All the comfort of your well-known zone, your friends, the people you used to see everyday. You're all alone. Mmmm not exactly, you have one person by your side. But that person is always there for you. For the good and bad. So strange.... An you met like a raindrop meets the ground after a morning shower and then disappears. With the exception that you didn't disappear, you stayed there, kept that 'wetness' right there in the soil.
And who would know...that you would now see that person every day. Which is the beginning of my story my dear friend...
-Wow...seems like a lot happened since the last time I saw you....Its sad to not be around you anymore you know... We used to have such a good time together! We were fooling around so much, talked about anything and nothing.... I really miss you. I miss your friendship.
-Aghhh I miss you too...! Hey lets just stop all this drama cause I am really getting my eyes all teared up and with this cheap mothertrucking mascara I bought, I cant afford to cry.
-Wow, you haven't changed a single bit. All making me laugh with your fake New Orleans accent... Oh well.. anyways, oopss its 30' past 1! I gotta go, my lunch break is already over!!
-Alright then, Oh my it was sooo good to see you! Promise we will "bump on to each other" again on the same spot, tomorrow??
-Haha sounds like a random encounter to me! Chiao!!
-I know eh!?? How are you...? Where have you been??
-Aghh you know..here and there... How are things going on your side?
-Nah..the usual, school, boyfriend, blah blah. But heyy...what about you?? We used to talk remember? Where have you been?
-Aghh... i was a student in Grayrain Province remember? But you know... money was an issue.. I was so stressed... Not able to eat properly, like couldn't afford to even go for normal weekly groceries... Stressed about appearance.. Stressed that I had nothing to wear sometimessss! and ha...you know how that is when you are young and pretty and you used to receive a certain type of comments about your style etc..
So...had some type of social stress as well... Aghh not able to socialize with friends properly... "Cant come have dinner tonight with you guys, I am busy I have to study!!" Bullllllshit...Ending up spending hours on the internet to find a way to earn money instead of studying... Losing any interest for school cause your life (social, personal) isnt the same anymore...
Aghhh money.. And then you tell yourself... Mm i am gonna use my credit card to go out with my friends, so that I don't have to bail out AGAIN, just once, only once. And then...once becomes twice..and then twice becomes everyday and you end up using money that was never yours through that plastic "miracle" called credit card.
And a month a later you receive the "letter". Ooooh yeah.. THE letter. Ouffff you dont even wanna open it. You place it on your desk, telling yourself you will open it when youre less stressed. But..you dont even HAVE to open it. Cause you know whats in it. But you keep on fooling yourself that it doesn't exist. Then when the time comes... All your debit account has been emptied. And not because you've spent it. But because that plastic miracle sucked it all up, without giving you a notice off course. And why would it? You borrowed "its" money, when you knew you weren't able to pay it back, not anytime soon anyways.
And then you have no money no chocho like my Haitian friend used to say... Cause whenever you deposit $ in your debit account, the plastic miracle is authorized to eat it up. But...you dont know that.
And there comes the time to pay your rent... But.."zero" has now become your new best friend. You see it everywhere, in your bank accounts, in your pockets, in your purse, even in your dreams. Mmm yeah, now you are able to focus and study. You are soo deeply motivated to focus and do well at school. So you borrow from your friends. And you do the mistake to borrow a looot. Cause they offered a lot. Cause they are your friends. And they trust you.
And the time passes... You decide that you have to leave the Grayrain province cause university cant accept you with no money and ...low grades. It doesnt care if the no money situation you were in caused you to not study and put you in an even more no money situation plus debt. You take your pride and start for the Promising Province.
You struggle. You stay at a hostel at first. You try to find a job and an apartment at the same time. No income flowing, but lots of expenses coming out of your pocket...Uhmmm let me rephrase that: your mommas pocket. You find an apartment.. Oufff what a relief. You get all happy and excited and kind of tell yourself you need a break from stress... Bills and expenses yeah are still running... Still chasing your ass.
So you decide to try and find a job. Lots and lots of applications. Ohhhhh yeah babaaay keep them flowwwwing. TOns of them. Millions. Zillions, Gazillions. But hey....you get a few offers, but you quickly realize the only job offers you got were either scams or you just didnt qualify at the end. What a luck. Mmmm not luck so much, I would say. So..... what do you do? Wait and wait, even decide to go to a local library to borrow resume books to update your resume. You do that. Spend nights working on your new CV. You re-apply. No-thi-ng.
Anddd then....there goes the bus strike! Ohhh yeah, cause bus drivers of the promising city of the promising province decide they dont get paid enough..sooo lets do a bus strike. No buses. No way you can go to any interviews! Great. A week goes by and the whole promising city is in the merci of the bus strike. A second week goes by. And a third one. A whole month. And another week. And another.
Till you get so fed up of waiting that you decide to contact your friends from the Diverse Province to help you move your bootay out of 'Promising' province. And it happens. And you spend two weekends back and forth promising and diverse provinces trying to find a new apartment, a new life. And you do. And everything seems all shiny and glittery at the beginning. You are happy, excited for another new beginning you've made, your way up to your goal mountain seems a little bit easier now.
And there it begins. It feels safer, warmer. But you've lost everything. All the comfort of your well-known zone, your friends, the people you used to see everyday. You're all alone. Mmmm not exactly, you have one person by your side. But that person is always there for you. For the good and bad. So strange.... An you met like a raindrop meets the ground after a morning shower and then disappears. With the exception that you didn't disappear, you stayed there, kept that 'wetness' right there in the soil.
And who would know...that you would now see that person every day. Which is the beginning of my story my dear friend...
-Wow...seems like a lot happened since the last time I saw you....Its sad to not be around you anymore you know... We used to have such a good time together! We were fooling around so much, talked about anything and nothing.... I really miss you. I miss your friendship.
-Aghhh I miss you too...! Hey lets just stop all this drama cause I am really getting my eyes all teared up and with this cheap mothertrucking mascara I bought, I cant afford to cry.
-Wow, you haven't changed a single bit. All making me laugh with your fake New Orleans accent... Oh well.. anyways, oopss its 30' past 1! I gotta go, my lunch break is already over!!
-Alright then, Oh my it was sooo good to see you! Promise we will "bump on to each other" again on the same spot, tomorrow??
-Haha sounds like a random encounter to me! Chiao!!
