__Argyle__Contributor
Wanting more out of life.
Hi,
I am now involved with many local social groups. Hopefully I can meet new friends and possibly a girlfriend. I don't have a lot of friends and I have had difficulty getting a girlfriend. I have had some close matches but that is about it. So I have never had a girlfriend pretty much and I am in my 40s too.
Its also been difficult for me to get work too. I have been looking for casual work for months now. I wonder if I will ever get a girlfriend I may just end up remaining single all my life.
Nice if my life actually worked better. I know relationships can get messy. My life does work well in that I am organised and studying when I can to be a music teacher.
How do I actually be happy and live my life even if it may not have worked out the same way it has for my siblings who are all married and have jobs and some have families now too.
While it may seem unfortunate that I don't have a girlfriend or job. I at least get a pension. But I still feel oppressed and somewhat institutionalised having being unemployed for decades living off a low income disability pension most of my life.
It doesn't really make much sense to me for society to so badly oppress its citizens. Homelessness is a lot worse than being poor and living in government housing but homelessness I think is a human rights abuse. Some days I am fortunate I have my own place of my own in government housing.
It doesn't seem fair or right or just at all that I have been oppressed and struggling with my life for decades and just continue to do so.
I don't think it is alright too for people like me to just be stuck in poverty traps for decades, oppressed, marginalised etc. But that has been my plight for many years and its been hard for me to cope with living under such deprived circumstances.
How am I meant to live happily under a plight that I think isn't really alright its oppressive and alienating. At least I can make progress with my life. I sometimes watch documentaries of other institutionalised people stuck in jail and mental hospitals.
There can often be a lot of shared empathy I find amongst the patients at mental hospitals that can be helpful. It would be nice if people discharged from mental hospitals had a job setup and decent social connections setup when they have been discharged from mental hospitals rather than often being left on their own often having to organise many things for themselves and struggle to get work.
It would be nice if mental hospitals offered decent work programs instead of having many of them cut due to government funding cuts.
I go to the Mental Hospital art class they at least make and sell some artworks. But the sales of artworks isn't enough for the artists there to live off. The gardening and cooking and hospitality programs at the cornucopia cafe have been shutdown now for years.
Regards,
Argyle
