Sheltered lives..

It's like this.. I'm curious to know how many of you live sheltered lives. I'm fairly sure that no one is going to pop right out and say that they don't know anything about the hard life. Seems like everyone wants to have it worse than others.

The real question is.. where do you live? What kind of neighbourhood to you have to walk through to get to work/school? What do you consider normal that other people more sheltered consider to be absurd.


I'll start out. I live in the dirty, dirty baby. And really.. New Orleans is fucking dirty. It's common place to hear gun shots and be closer than you knew to someone being killed. Dope deals on the corner and screamin ghetto children/moms next door. Before I got the big, bad, crime fighter, known as my dog.. my house was broken into. The took everything.. including one pillowcase and a blanket. Later my car was stolen, but then returned after a hard night on Bourbon St. Came back with beads on the mirror and the drivers seat so far back you couldn't see out the windshield. I take my dog out walking through some dirty, hard neighbourhoods, but not even the dumbest of the dumb come close.

But, I came to this from the mountains of North Carolina, so it was a huge culture shock to me. I didn't realize it, but I had led a sheltered life. I was not aware what a ghetto really was. Now, as bad as it can get here, I also now know that nothing can compare to the slums of Rio de Janeiro. Anyways.. my point is.. I am no longer sheltered to the reality of the world. Just because you think you understand it.. you don't. Not until you lived it.


Have you lived it?

 

You haven't lived it until your depravity is equal to theirs.

 

I have 100% lived a sheltered life

I grew up in a town of 1200 people in the middle of the woods and everyone knew everyone and there is virtually zero crime. We never locked our doors and never worried about it.

I now live in a town of 15,000 and it is basically the same thing. No crime, beautiful nature everywhere. The only problems with both places is that there are almost no employment opportunities. But lack of money is really the only worry I have.

 

So basically I know I am sheltered and I have no desire to live anywhere else other than a small town in the Pacific Northwest.

 

I see the world around me in very dark terms.

The way I see it, the more shady shit you've *done*, the more shady shit you see.

 

Take the blinders off.

 

You know Sam, thats a pretty good point, but can't always be held as truth.


Although, if you aint buying and you aint selling... you aint never been in a dope deal.


I am living it right now.. and I will never be as depraved as some of these people. You know why.. because I can still see my options. As long as you keep your options you aren't stuck doing the same thing.


I felt the same way about my small town Antithesis, until I realized that I would forever be in the same place that I started in. You get me? I could never advance as far as I want to if I stayed there. There were no OPTIONS, no money.. and I do love money.

 

I have not lived it, I live a very sheltered life. My parents have provided virtually everything I have needed (besides the off jobs where I buy a majority of the things I need). Canada is a very welcoming beautiful environment to live in! I live in a neighborhood where your neighbors wave to you and talk to you about the weather, we hold a yearly northern lights festival where everyone gets together and listens to good music and eats foods from different cultures and sells their own clothing and jewelry. I have great friends who are accepting of my indifference to social mediums. The only complaint I have is that this city is pretty small and their isn't alot to offer for entertainment other then the beautiful majestic nature you can surround yourself with. The only hardships I have faced was bullying in highschool and hostility in my house (which in some cases was deserved). My schooling is paid for since my dad works at a college literally afew blocks from our cozy home. The only thing they expect of me is to find a job where I can support myself after school and get a part time one to buy the things I really want (a car, makeup , specific shampoo's etc.)

Though you are surrounded with brutality and hard conditions I can't help imagineing how amazing it must be for you to be so independent and understand the real world. I wish I could trade my fortunate life in for one like yours so I can have a taste of back slap of reality. I keep myself informed of what's going on in the world, but it's not really the same if you're not living it or seeing it with your own eyes, maybe im crazy but I idolize your living conditions!!

P.S! What kind of pooch do you have?

 

Please don't missunderstand me.. I don't have a bad life or living situation. I like, for the most part, where I am in my life right now. I really can no longer imagine a life where everyone on the block gets together to sell hand made crafts, though. And truth be known, I like it that way. I don't want to make friends with my neighbours. I don't want to be known by everyone. I want to live a quiet, calm, somewhat lonely, life. I have realized how unimportant friends really are and how hard it is to find good ones.

I do miss having a connection with nature though. That's something I don't readily find here.


I have a German Shepherd.

 

when i was younger, i lived with my parents and it was a very sheltered life. But through the years, I've figured out how to make it on my own. So I guess I still am considered sheltered? Well im not sure what you would consider it.

The block and area I live on is just ok, I live out on long island. From a crime prospective, my area isn't to bad compared to others around me. But from when I was a kid to now, the houses, conditions of road, number of empty businesses, all keep growing and getting worse. The houses used to be so beautiful, now some of them are pretty run down. Its hit or miss, you have nice blocks then bad ones.

From a work stand point of view, there is NO jobs here. local economy is just downright bad. I work full time in a supermarket, and make little crafts to sell XD. I guess I am fortunate to get by especially in this economy.

 

How else could I notice all the darkness your average person refuses to acknowledge. Don't get me wrong, I also see a lot of beauty in the world.

But yeah, you really can't understand the true magnitude of something unless you've been a part of it. Even if you can see something from a distance and be able to say "I reconize that" you do not and will not know the undertones of the situation.

 

Awe! german sheperds are the shit! <3

When I'm done school and have a place of my own I want a husky.

 

When I was a child, I had a very sheltered and safe life. For the past 10-11 years though, things have completely UNsafe. lol

I'm kinda where Sam is, in that I see lots of darkness in the world, but I also see lots of beauty. I'm a very cynical person, regarding life and people, as a whole. I still manage to see good in the people around me though, and I have great appreciation for life and possibilities. Kinda contradictory, but it's hard to explain. Maybe the best way to explain it would be that I try to look through my cynicism and my experiences to find the beauty in the world.

 

Just the opposite. I grew up in a neighborhood where it wasn't safe to walk 200 feet in any direction. I went to a dangerous public school where they didn't teach me anything. I went to college in a city that had America's highest crime rate at the time I was there. The biker gangs used to have shootouts in the middle of the afternoon, across a 6-lane highway. I've had dead-end jobs with companies that had no future, which required me to live in towns with no future. I had a boss and coworkers that wanted me to fail, for reasons that had nothing to do with me personally. I've experienced nasty working conditions and illegal safety policies. I've lived in an apartment that was literally falling down around me, and parked my car in a dirt lot where it froze to the mud in winter and could not be driven. I had an apartment neighbor that was married to an arsonist.

I've made some good money in my life, but I earned every fucking penny.

OMG, don't get me started. The word is envy.

 

I have no envy for people who can't see the shit right in front of them. Ignorance may be bliss, but it's a waste of life not to understand what you're really involved with... as far as humanity goes.

 

Just remember that everything you have been through has made you who you are, so there is no reason to be envious since you seem like a great person.

And who knows what my life has in store for me?

 

Savage giant toy poodle mauling.

 

There's a little bit of heaven in every disaster area.

 

I seem to have come not subject to circumstance. That is things have come easy to me regardless ambient conditions. I have been both rich and poor, both devoted and devoted scoundrel. I have found that what we become accustomed to is lost to appreciation. Everything happens at the edges.

 

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