Archive for April 2009
It’s Easter, we got a new car yesterday and the sun is shining. So be happy!
I’ve been talking to my friend Brandon today, while looking various companies and applying to them. And he just told me something really sad.
He’s been searching for a job for months. And his parents recently gave him an ultimatum, if he can’t find a job by summer, they’re going to kick him out of their house. I asked him what he would do if that happened, expecting him to say he had a friend he could move in with. Instead, he told me that he didn’t know, because he didn’t have a car. If the worst came to pass, he said, he’d sell his computer and games systems to at least buy a car.
Another friend of mine, Matt, will most certainly not be living with his parents in a year. His family is moving down to North Carolina and he’s staying here in Michigan. Luckily for him, he’s got a friend who’s parents had to go back to Japan and another friend whose told him he can come live with his family.
But Brandon’s situation really struck a chord and I found myself glad that my parents hadn’t kicked me out, although they probably had very good reasons to if they’d so chose. I haven’t been doing so hot in my first year out of high school. I wish I had the intelligence of an older person instead of the dimwitted, neat-sightedness of an 18-year-old.
