I'm at Rock Bottom. No where to go but up!

LIFE, is hard!  Average cost of living is at minimum $2,300 to $6,000 per month depending on where you live.  Here in Florida the minimum wage is $8.22 an hour.  At 40 hours per week that's only $328.80 per week gross.  So if you're single you're paying approximately 28% in Federal income taxes so your take home per week is around $236.74 per week.  Far short of the average monthly cost of living and basically leaving you in poverty.

Now, it's easy for someone to say "Well, they should get a better paying job",  But when there are no better paying jobs regardless of your skill level or education you're just stuck.  A slave to our overpriced, capitalistic system.

I have hit rock bottom several times in my life.  I have worked my ass of trying to make a good life for my children and me.  It has not always been easy.  I've found too that when you are down, no one wants to help they only criticize and ridicule you as if you've done something wrong.  Until they themselves are caught up in the trappings of life and need help.

There are many People, Families, Father, and Mothers out there working hard trying to make ends meet.  Many ends have never met and it seems like they are in a never ending cycle of financial disparity find their lives spiraling out of control while others around them just stand by and watch.  Judging them as if they are the lowest life forms ever.

Let me say this...... Don't judge unless you're ready to be judged.  You have no idea what someone
has gone through.  You have no idea how someone has ended up in a bad situation with no hope. Everyone of us is just a heartbeat away from disaster.  It doesn't matter if you earn minimum wage or millions per year when the chips are down you will need someone to help you.

When I was down I had no help.  Encouraging words and motivational conversation didn't do anything at all to help me with my situation.  It didn't matter to me what anyone had to say uplifting because when they were done talking I was still in my situation.

Many of my friends never knew, but I've been homeless, penniless, and totally hopeless.  The worse part is that I had so called friends that could have easily helped me out but they were like the darkness of night.  All I heard were crickets.  All I heard was "Damn bruh, I know it's tough.  Keep praying, keep your head up, stay positive.

Well, I didn't stay positive.  I was hungry, broke, and my children needed me.  I was living in my truck freelancing for what ever work I could do for a few dollars.  I found out really fast that the only one I could count on was myself.  When I was making lots of money and living the life...... I had lot's of "Friends".

You one day will need help.  I'm still working on my own situation and I will rise up again.