Self sufficiency
I was 11, pocket full of quarters, had to notify where I was going to be at 5PM by 4PM to get picked up from wherever I would be, 24 cold sodas to lunch with frozen Snickers, net around $20, half to spend that day, half for my computers... late 1980's โบ๏ธ
Good morning, X.
You were how old when you figured it out?
Twenty-three. Maybe twenty-four.
Standing somewhere at 2am
realizing the phone was not going to ring.
Nobody was coming.
Not because they didn't care.
Because it was never their job.
You've been waiting for a knock on the door
from a man who looks like salvation.
He's not coming.
He doesn't exist.
And the moment you stop waiting for him
is the moment you become him.
Save yourself.
Not because no one will.
Because you can.