@TideisTurning wrote:
There are many external factors at play when it comes to housing insecurity and homelessness – for example, extreme wealth inequality in Australia and around the world, as well as many other factors.
Knowing that many of us can feel that homelessness or housing insecurity is in part something we might have been able to prevent – does appreciating all the external factors at play help you to feel a bit less hard on yourself?
Regarding my different take on "homelessness", these issues really tangle me up and prove to be a major obstacle for me.
Money can't buy people (at least, it can't buy their hearts and souls), so financial wealth, to me, is not a route to the end of "homelessness". If I won Lotto, I could buy the bricks and morter; I could even buy the land in a safe, low-crime neighborhood to build it all upon.
But could I truly buy myself a family? Because a family it what I truly want. I think I could stand living in a run-down old horse-drawn wagon like a gypsy, if I got to live like that alongside my kindred spirits. Wealth isn't my route to happiness.
But when people look at my predicament, they all insist on believing that all my woes a rooted in my lack of money. They can't seem to look beyond that. Even the therapists can't see that my relationship poverty is a far more pressing issue then my financial poverty.
I can't communicate with these people. They just don't want to listen to my grief. Hence, I can't get any help whatsoever to find the people who will be my home.
Maybe the fault's on both sides. I must admit, I'm not very good at listening to all their commentary about my financial state. Maybe I'm just as much to blame.
Please let me know if I'm hijacking this conversation and taking it in directions that nobody else wants to go.
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