“I am jealous of those who think more deeply, who write better, who draw better, who look better, who live better, who love better than I.”— (via perrfectly)
“It’s easy to judge. It’s more difficult to understand. Understanding requires compassion, patience, and a willingness to believe that good hearts sometimes choose poor methods. Through judging, we separate. Through understanding, we grow.”— Doe Zantamata (via purplebuddhaquotes)
my skills include reading an entire page of an academic text without absorbing a single word
But…. that’s the point…. you should have saved so you weren’t living paycheck to paycheck….
Hey instead of being mean, I’m going to try to explain this in simple terms
The phrase “living paycheck to paycheck” implies there is no room for savings. You are spending your entire paycheck to survive. All of your expenses are going towards you barely being able to tread water. Any savings made are quickly lost when emergencies inevitably arise. Two back to back financial crisises? That’s your ass. That’s fuck you, you should have saved more, even though you couldn’t have.
Your comment is saying people who are struggling to save deserve that pain because they didn’t save. 800,000 currently furloughed workers with 800,000 different lives are carrying the burden of missing a month’s pay, bills, rent, childcare, food, debts indifferent to that burden - in what way is telling someone barely surviving they should have stopped being poor a meaningful statement? It isn’t.
Please be kinder to others