One of my favorite scenes in the film You've Got Mail is where Meg Ryan talks a little bit about her life as having a small life. She owns a small bookstore in New York that was her mother's bookstore before her. She's not a huge store owner but she gets fine does fairly okay but the comment is I live a small life. I used that phrase this morning or yesterday actually in a comment to somebody I recently met on the internet. This person reached out to me initially to ask me some questions about Boise Idaho time I used to live in. She's a very smart Asian lady who is from China and is a documented person in the USA. Anyway and of course the conversation she was astounded that I make very little money and she cannot understand how I survive the way that I do. In fact she was so emphatic that I started wondering, once again, how strange am i? I mean I understand where I am financially, I'm certainly not there with the big guys by no means but I think I've eaked out a niche that allows me to live where I live, do what I do and be fairly happy at where I am if that makes any sense. This relationship I have with this person it's only been going on for 5 days. She really knows nothing about me and she may not even visit with me again because now I am sure that she feels I am a pauper- and I am so what? As I told her I get by and I'm relatively happy. I don't travel, I don't spend big time. I stay within the Realms of my minor existence in my senior housing apartments, going to movies, reading books and volunteering where I can and keeping relationships alive as best as I can. I'm trying to survive till the end whenever that is. Today was Wednesday of course which means it's wash day which means I really need to stay close in to the apartments while the wash is going on and getting it done then folding clothes and hanging up clothes that need to be hung. I had thought at one time about jumping the bus and going down to the DI and going through some of the shirts to see if there's any long sleeve shirts that look fairly decent that I could use this winter. However the conversation with this person that's so rattled me I'm wondering if that's exactly what I'm doing in living my small life in second hand stores. But once again that's where I'm at I'm happy with going to thrift stores wearing Thrift clothes and getting by with my small life I don't think I would like to live in Southern California or I couldn't with the amount of funding I have at this point in time. But I've often also made the comment that if I could live anywhere I wanted magically or whatever I would live in San Francisco or one of the smaller communities around that area. There's a great Independent Living Center in that area that I have visited before that I was sort of taken with. And I wouldn't mind living a small life in San Francisco once I got established as far as having enough to live, in a fairly comfortable lifestyle utilizing public transit another forms available to people with disabilities. I could do that...
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