pilotguy

A few days ago when I was out with a friend eating dinner at our cheap Chinese place.....

An old man walked in and ordered takeout. This guy was fairly obviously past most of his healthy years. He had a big nose and ears, as old peeps do, and walked with a slight limp. He wasn't very pleasant to look at, and some of the customers were staring. I really just felt bad for the guy... like.. to the point that I felt depressed for a while after we left.

I've felt this way another time while leaving my local big-box store. The greeter was an old man and he was shuffling a piece of paper with his foot. I was confused until I realized he was kicking it to the bench so he could use the bench to help himself bend over and pick it up.

We NEED to take care of these people in our society better than we do currently.

I just felt like I could see that they were unloved... maybe they are/were, and I'm wrong. But they're definitely unloved by our society.

It pisses me off when I see something wrong that I can't fix. Had I been able to fix it, I'm not even sure that I would have tried, and that makes me a hypocrite, but feeling powerless -to me- is a deep dark pit of despair.

I guess I can draw a parallel with my mom's fight with cancer.

Sorry to bring you down, but it was a powerful feeling I needed to get out.

-On a side note.. Don't watch "love happens" unless you want to cry your motherfucking eyes out...