Allright, so to be perfectly honest, there are days when I lack the get-up-and-go to try to create a new blog post from scratch, so I resort to poking through the dozens of partial articles in my "drafts" folder.
Actually, I have a drafts folder here on PeakD and I have a (much larger) drafts folder offline, on my desktop computer. Oh, and I also have an "ideas" file for those things I have a notion about, but haven't actually started writing, yet.
I just spent about a half hour looking at these folders, because it's getting late and I wanted something quicker to publish. After all, isn't that the point of having half-finished articles? To finish them?
Well, in a strangely twisted version of "flipping through the channels" on the TV and ending up at "200 channels, and there's nothing on!" I determined that — in this moment — everything in my drafts folder was basically boring.
What Numbs Your Brain?
This afternoon, my get-up-and-go was somewhat derailed by falling into one of the many rabbit holes that lurks on the web.
In this case, it was one of those sidebar links, in this case to a documentary about homelessness in the USA. As a result of which I ended up on YouTube, watching various documentary clips.
The point at which the "air went out of my balloon" was when I watched a clip about a homeless encampment in Oakland, California... and the interviewer was actually talking to a couple of employed doctors who were living in their cars, in the camp.
Absurd as it might seem, these young doctors had gotten jobs in the area, but with their student loan debt, and the requirement to put first + last month's rent and a deposit on a "CHEAP" $3,500 apartment, they had little choice but to "drop out." Or live in a "cheap motel" and face a two-hour commute (with current current gas prices) each way, every day.
I thought about our own little town of some 10,000 and how many people here are actually homeless.
I know what a parked car that someone lives in looks like, because I once had to live in my car. It's no joke.
There's something seriously wrong with a society in which the homeless with drug problems and mental health issues are not the majority anymore... it's just regular folks who actually have jobs and sometimes well paying jobs that are living in tents under freeways...
Then I watched a different clip about a community that was solving the issue by putting tiny homes and portable housing on donated land... and it was being shut down by city government because of some zoning issue.
It's really just a "smashing my head on desk" moment. I don't get it.
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