I know that I'm tired of getting our asses kicked by the system for certain. You know the old saying, you can't fight city hall, well it seems to be more like, you can't fight the insurance company, you can't fight the pharmaceutical company, you can't fight the cell phone carrier, you can't fight FEMA, you can't fight the bank etc.... there seems to be more big business handing out crushing blows to us all, the little people these days than ever before. I saw today that a friend posted up a photo of their home in Jersey. Now these people lived down the shore (near the ocean or water for those of you that don't know that in Jersey, no matter where you are, north, south, east or west, you always go DOWN THE SHORE) and they had every single type of insurance that you can have. Home, fire, flood, car.... they were insured out the ass and ready for any type of catastrophe that the universe could throw their way. So Sandy hits and it's now long since passed but people are still screwed. This particular friend had all of their insurance through All-State and had for many years. The insurance adjusters finally arrived, assessed their damages and the home is a total loss by the way, water was up to the bottom of the second floor and a wave literally blew a massive hole through the front of the home, well anyway, they offered this family $158.65. Yes, you are reading that correctly, that is not a typo, one hundred and fifty bucks for their home, their car and all their belongings! They red tagged the home which means it is a total loss and uninhabitable and against the law for them to even enter the property, so they in-fact are now law breakers for taking photos of the damage in their own home! How can this be? How can they get away with this? They take our money because you must have insurance BY LAW and yet they do everything and anything they can to keep from ever having to pay out a single penny to the policy holders. My heart bleeds for the people on the east coast who have not only lost everything, but continue to be injured by the unjust treatment that they are receiving. I know that this is something that has me really bummed out and I feel helpless because there is nothing that I can do to help them. We've shopped for Diane's medicine last week to see if the price had gone down or to see if we can get it for a lower price anywhere and the cost rather than go down, has now gone up to $132,500 per month! One month of medicine costs a thousand times what they are giving people for the total loss of their homes? Does this make any sense to any of you? I know that has got me down too and has for the last 12 years! These companies are like criminal organizations that hold the power of life and death in their hands in many cases and still do whatever they can to break it off in your ass and the more people that they can break it off in the asses of, an employee is getting a bonus for it! There is just so much that is wrong with the world and so many are hurting so badly and I can't seem to shake the awful feeling of it. I've always been aware of suffering and I've always felt bad for those who suffer, but never before have I ever felt the weight of it so heavily.
So for me, what I try to do is focus on what I have that is good. What I have to look forward to and those that I love. Rather than be jealous of those I know who are achieving some level of success, I celebrate it and pray that good is coming our way as well. Nothing in life worth having comes easy and nothing in life is free, this is obvious.... well except for the Obama phone but don't get me started on that shit.... I am a firm believer in a free market system, I just hate greed, so I try to counter the greed of the world by doing good for other people. I've found that the worse I'm feeling, the more I do for others makes me feel so much better. There was an old saying "your not in this alone" and normally it made you feel better to know that you were not out on a ledge by yourself, but is it any better to know that SO MANY people are standing on that ledge as well? One would think that at some point, that ledge would not be able to bear the weight of all those people out there and eventually snap off! I'm going to do whatever the fuck it takes to come in from that ledge and hopefully pull a few people back in with me. No matter what the case, I'm trying to stay focused and positive and just try to find away around, over, under or through whatever obstacles the world keeps throwing in our way. I've got more events planned in this coming year then I ever have before, I'm getting my writing out to the world now, Diane's health is staying steady and her MS has not progressed and gotten worse, we have a roof over our heads and food in our bellies and we just keep on fighting. We need things to look forward to and this will help motivate you to keep up the fight. For me, what I am looking forward to most is what you've read in the title of this post.
My baby is getting ready to hit the road again. My pride and joy as many of you know is my beautiful 47' Knuck. Life is also about learning lessons and the most recent lesson I've learned is that a 65 year old bike is not meant to be ridden like a Ducati! Oh well, lesson learned and the heart and soul of my knuck will be re-built shortly. As a matter of fact, it is in the process of getting fixed right now. I can't wait to kick that dirty bitch to life, hop on and run the mountain roads and switchbacks again. So each time I'm feeling like shit, I pull out a pic or look at a video clip from riding her or think about a trip that I've taken her on and it lifts me up.
All I know is that this time of the year is the hardest time for so many of us. I know that we don't all feel the joy in this season and I understand that, I just wish that so many didn't feel so much pain during this time of the year! Go out and volunteer, help someone, do something nice for someone who doesn't expect it and you know what? It helps, believe me. It will help both them and you and I've also found that it is in-fact contagious! I hope that things get better for all of us and they get better soon! I'm not even sure I should post this shit. I never read what I've written once it's written, I just hit spell check and post. Fuck, this started out to just be a post about my knuck getting worked on...... imagine what would happen had I not been stone sober?
Until we see each other again,
keep the wind in your face,
Tits in your back
and The Man Off Your ASS!
Your friend,
Jack Shit
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