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ABOUT THE AUTHOR OF THIS WEBSITE:
About
My Disease
I want you to read about me first, so
that you will understand who I am a little, before you start passing
stones. I am not the best writer. I do have problems now with
words, so you will just have to over-look this in my writing. yes,
I guess I wrote a lot here, but then I have some things to say that I
feel are important. Right, wrong, or indifferent, it is my story,
and so I will risk some self pride by telling you as much as I can about
myself and my circumstances that has lead me to such drastic actions.
The circumstances about myself on this first page have nothing to do
with why I needed assistance, nor the problems I have had with it.
It is only to share some of my life with you up to that point. On the
next page, I will share those problems. There are those that feel that
if someone is on assistance, they must be lazy, drunk, take drugs, are
co-dependant on others, or completely uneducated to do better for
themselves; for being in such a situation. And then their are those that
smirk and really think, "it would never happen to me" syndrome. I
want you to understand that there are many reasons why people are in
these situations.
Of course not everyone
feels that way, but these are some of the images our society has marked
with those that are in need. Although I may have issues, I was no
different than many out there, and still I am not. I am an average
citizen, just trying to be productive in life, trying to become more
self reliant due to an illness, and only wants the opportunity to enjoy
my loving family (kids) without additional hardship (that comes within
the system of it all). To enjoy my life again, completely independently
of any assistance, and to enjoy my community and in the country that I
love. Yet the same country I love, is creating hardship in programs that
are suppose to be helping, so people like myself, and mostly those who
have it even worse, can have that same opportunity again in their life.
I assure you that I hardly have ever drink, (never developed a taste for
alcohol), I hate drugs, I hate having to ask for help, and I do not want
to be co-dependant on anyone or anything...
Its up to each person,
as an individual human being, to make their life happy and
functional in a healthy manner. But for those who need assistance,
where things happen beyond their control, that assistance is suppose to
be there because of the hardship, not to create additional hardships and
emotional trauma. This is not the way to help someone less
fortunate, or someone who has earned such rights in that assistance
through age or through the hardship of war. This is not the way to
help the needy, much less honor our heroes, especially those who are
homeless and are struggling now ONLY because of the duties and
obligations placed upon them in order to served to our country. We
are one of few countries where any single human being can make a
difference. Any one of us are free to climb any mountain in life
and any level we choose. We are free to build our own empires, and
just as free to be self destructive to yourself and so many times to
others.
There are those
who are born with silver spoons in their mouths, and those born into
poverty. Those in poverty can still climb that mountain, just as silver
spoons can tarnish through the actions they choose in life and through
self destruction. While the opportunities for those less fortunate
are measurability harder to achieve without some form of help, I
believe, it is possible for anyone, including myself. to live life
productively, if they only want to. Sometimes, people just need help to
get there..... To make that difference. Every single human being
at some point needs help. May have families who offer this. Some have
friends. Even those that say, I ever asked anyone for anything, is
not being truthful to themselves. It is impossible to go through
life, without having to have had help along with way. Its just
impossible. Anyone who thinks such, is either very self
centered, or very ungrateful. Because it is impossible.
No one man can stands
alone. No man is an island. There are times where people need one
another. No matter how rich, how strong, no matter what
characteristics one has, there are times where as human beings, we need
one another. As a country, and the richest country in the world,
we should all be ashamed that we are allowing our elected officials to
manage such programs the way they do. And I am asking, and
pleading with citizens to do do something about it.... Not
tomorrow, but today. Not to turn the other way, or pass the buck as the
government does. But to also take responsibility as a tax payer, but
even more, as a human being....
And I am asking that like in the
movie "paying forward", this holiday, to open your hearts, and to be
grateful. to help those you love that may have it less fortunate, maybe
to help make a difference in their life, where they might not have had
quite as much opportunities than you... Maybe they didn't have the
same doors open than you did. Maybe they did, and worked twice as hard
to open that door, but didn't understand or have the insight you have;
to have seen the door open. That if you are one of the more
fortunate people, who climbed that mountain, maybe its time to pay
forward in appreciation to those less fortunate. YOU DON'T HAVE TO
DO ANYTHING. No one will make you. It will have to be within
yourself and your heart to feel the need. How big is your heart?
How big of a human being are you to the ones you really love, or who
really love you? It's out of love, companion, and deep
appreciation, as a human being to look in your own heart and mirror...
Ask yourself this holiday, have you paid forward or returned back in
life, what life gave you. I didn't say you might not have earned
it. I say, ask yourself this holiday, have you paid forward or
returned back in life, what life gave you.
Anyway, I will tell you
about myself, my condition, and about this Medicaid and Disability Program
first hand. The government can tell tax payers, oh, we offer this
and this for the needy. next time they open their mouth to the
public, I hope some one will have enough common sense, to say, "great,
let me take a good look at those guild lines and THE FINE PRINT!
YOU decide how fair or
unfair it is. I already know. When you see how discriminating it
is and how government guild lines are written, not to weed out those
that abuse it. Instead see how
own government is purposely sabotaging, emotionally traumatizing,
& discriminating against those they are suppose to be
helping.
Maybe you will finally understand why you keep hearing talk about so
many people being homeless and how many of the families got that way
when we pay taxes especially for things like this from happening in our
country.
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