Deep Thoughts by Paradise

Anyone remember the old SNL "deep thoughts by Jack Handy"???? Those were funny!!! Anyway, was working for my dad yesterday (I work on the farm every other saturday when I don't have my kiddo to make some extra money) and he needed me to paint the inside of one of his houses. Guess there is a renter coming in and my dad just picked up this little two BR home on one of the farms he bought. As I was painting a the guy that was going to rent came to the door to talk to my dad. Make a long story short his wife left him and she took the kids and he cannot afford the home on one salary and paying child support so he's in foreclosure. I overheard my dad talking to him and they laid out the rent payments. He set him up so that the first few months the rent was a bit less with some stipulations that he fix a few things in the home. Talked to my dad afterwards and he said he has no problem helping people out if they want to work to get out. I thought about this a LOT while inhaling paint fumes the rest of the day and I remember this is what he has done with me, too. He helped me but if I wasn't showing that I was willing to do the hard work and help myself I know he would have stopped helping. I mean, I am and have been working my a$$ off to get out of this debt, to better myself emotionally, and to hopefully live a debt free life here in a couple of years (the way I was before I met my ex). It's freakin hard! I can see why many can't do it and go off the deep end because you have to be able to look at yourself in the mirror every day and every night and ask yourself how committed you are to making your life better in the future, no matter how sucky it might be today. Fact is though, we are all here because at one point in time our lives got turned upside down. I know mine did. And it was up to me all along to do the dirty work to find a new direction and a new place. Too many people I believe just want handouts and want someone else to just "fix it" for them. While that may work temporarily in the long run that is going to do nothing as most people will just slide back into old habits. There's my deep thoughts for the day. Oh, and I don't know how people paint for a living. I slept like crap last night and I still feel like crap this morning.

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