Trading Places: Not Sure Where To Post This

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  • John23
    John23 Member Posts: 2,122 Member
    #22
    bluerose said:

    Something makes me want to say yes I would trade but ....
    Can't do it. Very strange feeling. Basically I am the type of person who feels that everything happens for a reason so I think that is what is stopping me from saying 'yes I would trade with him' but it's interesting it would even be a little bit of a dilemna for me. Interesting indeed.

    It would have been easier to answer in the affirmative if you said that you could change your fate if you chose the down on his luck dude but if you had to stay in that despearte situation - not quite as tempting.

    I, like most of you I would suspect, have gained a good deal of wisdom from the cancer experience as I have I think so to give that up would be impossible indeed. My children too have seen their Mother fight hard to survive and I think it has made them stronger too so that is something I wouldn't want to lose - teaching them about survival and strength.

    So my answer is no I wouldn't change with him but even as I typed that there was a little voice that whispered 'yes'. Irritating little voice, lol.

    All the best Phil.

    BLuerose

    Phil......
    I guess I wouldn't want to trade places, because
    I'd be trading the poor individual's decent health
    for my cancer ravaged body.

    It just doesn't sound like a very fair swap to me.



    Just a cpl centavos' from the p-nut gallery..

    John
  • Nana b
    Nana b Member Posts: 3,030 Member
    #23
    John23 said:

    Phil......
    I guess I wouldn't want to trade places, because
    I'd be trading the poor individual's decent health
    for my cancer ravaged body.

    It just doesn't sound like a very fair swap to me.



    Just a cpl centavos' from the p-nut gallery..

    John

    No, I would not. I have a
    No, I would not. I have a homeless brother in law who we see once in a great moon, now that we moved to California. Before we moved, we saw him about once a week to get showered and get a something out of his closet (I kept for him with new clothes). He never wanted to work and appears to be fine living under a bridge or where ever he stays warm at. We got him jobs and he did not stick, he wanted to be out doors. We got him a job outdoors, and it did not stick. So, can't help him anymore.

    In summer, everyone once in awhile he and his newest girlfriend would come take a dip in our pool to take a bath (so my girls would tell me). Man, did I want to empty that pool!

    But, to get back to the question no, I would not. I need a home, a place of my own. And I have too much pride to take from other's hard earned money.

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