How much pressure can a man take?

[dolgoruky]

I don't consider myself a whinger. I'm the suffer-in-silence, keep-it-to-myself, laugh-on-the-outside-cry-on-the-inside kind of bloke. But I'm really feeling the strain at the moment. Everything is going wrong, and the future looks horribly uncertain. And to make it worse, someone very close to me who I respect enormously and hold great affection for is dying. I'm desparately trying to hold it together, but it's hard.

However, I've managed to draw an important lesson from this. If you're working class (I suspect there are some others lurking around on this board), and bereft of those priviliges which others richer than you have, life is a constant struggle. And unless we bring about a fairer society based on common ownership of the benefits of civilisation FOR ALL, then for the kid who is now gestating in the womb of my equally underpriviliged wife, the only privilege that he/she will inherit is the task of being the beast of burden for the rapacious ruling classes who masquerade as the guardians of all that is good.

Just a thought...

[OldEurope]

1. I send to you:

:hug: for your loss and a
:toast: to the hope for a better future for our children


:hi:

[dolgoruky]

3. Received...

... and appreciated.

[moof]

2. Wish there was something to say to make it better for you.

It sounds like there is progress on the BBV front so if there is an honest election this fall maybe the planet can start inching back towards becoming a civilization. Till then remember you are not alone,
most of us are in this together & are pulling for you & yours.

[usrbs]

4. You aren't alone.

I wish there were more than words I could send your way, but know that we are at least here to talk to.

Bush & cohorts are busily trying to turn us all into working serfs, not realizing that in the long run (hopefully not so long), that will wake us all up to their plunder and greed.

A better world is out there somewhere. Hang in there.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

5. We all feel the strain at times

and in these times, even those who don't have friends dying know how you feel. Society has lost its ideals. The rich are grabbing for even more, and are exploiting not only the working class but the middle class as well. I have a feeling that the world as we know it is fixing to come crashing down. Maybe, working together, we can build a better world on the ashes of this one.