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Post by swankivy on Oct 22, 2010 19:36:34 GMT -5
The Devil You Know
It's clear Melanie's home life isn't great, but in this week's issue she was more willing to deal with it than risk braving the streets permanently. Are you currently, or have you been in the past, in a bad situation that you continue to tolerate because it's preferable to facing the unknown?
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Post by SHO! on Oct 22, 2010 20:44:07 GMT -5
The Devil You KnowIt's clear Melanie's home life isn't great, but in this week's issue she was more willing to deal with it than risk braving the streets permanently. Are you currently, or have you been in the past, in a bad situation that you continue to tolerate because it's preferable to facing the unknown?  |
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Post by swankivy on Oct 23, 2010 15:48:56 GMT -5
I sure have. I stayed at a retail job for six years, and I didn't hate every bit of it (it was a bookstore, yay!) but I got paid pitifully little and had to work very hard/put up with a lot of incredibly disrespectful attitudes (from both customers and co-workers/management). I wasn't miserable, but I was discontent that I could not afford to live how I wanted to live and that I ended every work day exhausted (emotionally more than physically), and it made it so I didn't really have the energy for my writing or my other creative projects unless I stressed myself to finish them.
But since I wasn't in an unbearable position, I put up with it for much longer than I should have, and when I eventually moved to another city where I could make more money, I only did it knowing I was moving closer to family and they could help me out if I needed it, and I got a loan from my sister to take care of my expenses until I could find a new job. It worked out better than I could have imagined, but there was that chance that it might NOT have, and that was what kept me where I was for so long.
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Post by M Lee on Oct 26, 2010 15:20:24 GMT -5
Considerin' how much crap my folks went through early on in my childhood, acting like the children they more or less were, I can say yes. But knowing I would have been no more mature in the same situation, I can give them some slack. And it wasn't on par with some, to be sure. Thankfully alcohol was the only recurring demon in my household.  |
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