How much to buy your soul?
HushBull
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To whomever for whatever...
So what kind of bargain can a person get? And in lieu of what?
So what kind of bargain can a person get? And in lieu of what?
"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro"
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i'm thinking oreos?
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lol..no. Wasn't that a Got Milk commercial?
It was a burrito from a taco shop. Also again for a teriyaki bowl from Rice King. And a few times for pastries and fruit.
There was a period of time in my life when I was homeless and starving. I wasn't living on the street. I was living on the living room floors of friends' apartments, and to me that's pretty much as close to being homeless as I ever want to get.
They weren't buying or cooking food for me, and so I was starving.
I had to beg people for money and food. One night I walked into a taco shop hungry as can be and I offered to take out their trash for some food.
The guy rolled me up a big, fat burrito and said don't worry about it. It was a humbling experience to say the least.
Eventually I discovered that a lady in my neighborhood gave away free food early in the morning at her house.
She gets grocery store blemishes/overstock or something every day, and she gives it away to the poor.
So there I was at the crack of dawn in her backyard along with other destitutes standing in line for hand outs. Smashed pastries and bruised fruit never tasted so good.
Eventually I discovered that I qualified for food stamps. The first thing I bought when I cashed my food stamp check was a bowl of Rice King Teriyaki, rice, and vegetables. That was the first full meal I had eaten in weeks.
So, no...I didn't exactly "sell my soul", but it was certainly a humbling, if not humiliating experience that left an indelible impression on me. Simply put, it changed the way I look at life. In other words, that experience was probably one of the best things that ever happened to me.
Every day in which I am able to consume a delicious, well-balanced meal purchased with money I earned through my own honest work is a day for which I can be thankful.
Also something I have a hard time forgetting is the people that I saw in the morning when I was waiting for hand-outs. Most notably was a small family whose mode of transportation was a bicycle that was put together from miscellaneous spare parts, each of which looking as though it originated from a dumpster.
For me, it was just a case of a young punk kid who was transitioning from careless teendom to adult-hood the hard way: without parental assistance.
For those people, it was a way of life. And those poor children who had to grow up in that environment are hard to forget even 10 years later.
Sometimes when I look at my seriously kick-ass Trek full-suspension bicycle that I just absolutely adore down to the very last greasy bolt, the image of that dumpster bike upon which that homeless family carted around their wordly possessions will briefly pop into my head and sort of hit me with a guilt trip.
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but my soul and I are pretty tight; could I sell my kidney instead??
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