So I have this Facebook friend....
If there were some way to compile and publish her posts (without embarrassing her) I would love to do it.
She's a friend from high school -- we're now over fifty.
She worked for an insurance company for years and years after high school (and a little college). About three years ago, she posted on Facebook that her position had been eliminated. She was being laid off, and she wondered if it had anything to do with her age and worried about finding another job. But she never blamed her old employer -- It was like Stockholm Syndrome or maybe she was just hoping they'd change their mind.
Months go by. She's posting on Facebook about how she can't find anything. There were a couple of brief stints, a couple of temp jobs. Through it all she stayed upbeat and positive (she's always been that way) thinking that everything will turn out for the best.
She's now a cashier at Wal-Mart -- and at first she was over-the-moon excited about getting the job.
Now she posts about the harsh treatment from her management. How her fifty-year-old back aches from standing all day. How even though she's rarely been sick in her life, she now has a cold that she can't seem to shake.
It's just incredibly sad. Her posts are a chronicle of someone's life slowly slipping away. Yet she remains optimistic that something better will come along; there's a weird sort of nobility to how she faces this shit sandwich that the universe has left on her plate.
I hope her optimism is rewarded.
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