Harsh Living

Living far from work

2017-07-08T21:14:00.000-05:00

Imagine you're trying to go to work. The issue is that you live a fair distance from your job. Now there are several issues with living so far away from your job.

One of the issues being traffic. If you decide to take the interstate, you could possibly face major time delays due to construction, accidents, or just other cars refusing to get over in the slow lane.
Choosing the highway route is another option, but the issue with that is more authorities will be patrolling the surrounding areas. Now that can end in either speeding tickets or high-speed highway chases, or you can just be late for your job due to congested highway traffic, unfortunately.

Another issue is having to wake up far more earlier than you're used to. Your workday starts at 8:30 a.m. and you live further than 20 minutes away. Now chances are, you're going to be groggy and grumpy when you wake up if you're waking up at 5:00 a.m. sharp. Sometimes people try to "stretch" the morning before work in order to either:

Get more sleep for an extra 30 minutes to an hour
Eat breakfast and partially wake their body up
Decide whether or not they're going to work at all

Usually the first option is most ideal, but the third option is actually more commonly chosen than you may think, simply because people don't want to deal with getting out of their bed to drive 30 minutes to an hour to their job, which is reasonable to extent.

People don't drive far to work everyday because they want to. They make that trip everyday because they know that the money they make at their current job is more important than some extra R&R; although it's nice, it's not necessarily needed everyday. At the end of the day, you either make that trip to work to make money or stay at home and be at risk of losing your job.

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Young and married

2017-07-06T22:44:00.000-05:00

Two adjectives that you often hear together in today's society are "young" and "married". What exactly does being young and married mean? In simple terms, hardship. Yes, you do see hardship in every marriage, but being young amplifies that effect ten-fold. When you're young and married, you have to take time to get to know one another without being a child about it.

Being young and married forces you to prioritize your life and your goals. You can go from being single and selfish to married and selfless. A young, married couple faces hardship simply because they didn't give enough time for one another to grow completely. It's an entirely new journey that they have to face with each other.

In some cases, young, married couples are actually mature as older marriages. They know what they are in for, and they are fully prepared to take that long life journey with one another. These cases are the best to observe because it makes you feel as if there's truly someone for everyone.

The journey young couples go through today often depend on the type of bond the two individuals had before marriage. More often than it seems, young, married couples unfortunately become a statistic. No one likes being a statistic, but it's the ugly truth. Statistics shows that most young, married couple will face a divorce before they reach 30.

In short, if you're young and married, I urge you to prove statistics wrong and fight your marriage under any plausible circumstances.

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Living with parents

2017-07-05T23:21:00.001-05:00

Living with parents. lovely, right? Well it depends on who you ask. In this post, we'll be discussing pros and cons of living with your parents just to shed some light on those who want to continue living with their parents until they're 40.

Now with parents, they're all different; some are nice and some are mean, and some just downright don't care. The nice parents are usually the ones who are very to hard to detach from. Growing up, they spoiled you and made sure everything was gonna be OK as long as you stayed around them.

The mean ones are probably the easiest to detach. It's a "probably" because they weren't always mean. They were very strict, but you understood why most of the time. By the time you get of age, they'll probably make you leave anyway. Let's be honest, no parent would want that. In reality, they'll try their best to support you in helping the transition. But, with them being mean, you'll probably end up doing the most work.

Now the parents that just downright don't care what you do with your life are the ones who make it impossible to want to leave. I mean, let's be honest, no one wants to give up free rent. In order to be detached from these types of parents, you have to have the willpower to want leave and start your life as an adult.

The pros of living with parents include:

Free Rent

Someone to cook for you

No obligations(in some cases)

Being a BUM is easy

The cons of living with parents are:

Someone always telling you what to do
Having to deal with unnecessary loudness
Having to pitch in for bills
Being a BUM is hard

Now I'm sure I left plenty out. Let me know what you guys think in the comment section below!

Military Basic Training

2017-07-04T21:36:00.004-05:00

Basic Training is supposed to harden and reshape civilian minds into stern battle-ready soldiers. That's the moral of the entire thing. But underneath all of the training, it's having to deal with everyday problems for 2 months with everyone and everything else.

When you first get there, you're up for almost 3 days, which causes sleep deprivation. It is a pain to having to try and stay up. Most of the time, people would doze off for 5-10 minutes just to have some shuteye. Unfortunately, Drill Sergeants would catch you and make you stand for the remainder of the time there. After the 3rd day, You're shipped to actual training, which will be gruesome.

Trying to be comfortable around 50 other strangers can be really frustrating for the first few weeks. In fact, the majority of the people don't really get along until after the first month. Also being in barracks with 50 other people can spread sickness regardless of the shots that were taken beforehand. One medium sized room, with 50 people breathing in the same air, is not an ideal situation to be in.

Having to deal with other people on a daily basis can cause further issues in the barracks when it's not confronted. Everyone has to try to cooperate on some level in order to fully understand what it means to be a brother. So whether you like it or not, you have find some way to deal with everyone else.

Having a hard time living with everyone else is very similar to living in the world after basic training. So in reality, basic training is meant to prepare you for everything even when you leave for your duty station because you're going to have to deal with a lot of adversity on a daily basis.

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Money Troubles

2017-07-03T23:03:00.004-05:00

Money makes the world go round, especially if you have an abundance of it. Unfortunately, unlike some people who were born into it, the majority of today's society has to actually work for it.

The issue with money is that we don't have enough of it, in layman's terms. The big corporations today are more focused on continuing to drain us of the little money we have for their own personal gain. Instead of wanting to give back to the troubled lower class society, that's their main target. Now, I'm not saying that the lower class is easily swayed by big corporations' propaganda, I'm just noting that they're the primary target.

If the world did not revolve around money, it would likely be a much better world to live in. Money can either solve problems or make problems. In my opinion, it's a 50/50 split. Without any form of money, they'll be forced to revert back to bartering, which in turn is still a form of currency; it's just implemented differently. With money currently in flow, our society today is seemingly struggling to stand on their own two feet.

The main thing about money is, now that it's literally making the world go round, it can make us and break us. Money can solve the greatest issue or it can cause a great threat.

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Dealing with stress

2017-07-03T07:28:00.001-05:00

Dealing with Stress

Let's talk about stress. When it comes to facing difficult obstacles in your life, let's be honest, it can be really stressful. The moment an issue gets out of hand, it can be stressful. The moment someone else makes your job more difficult, it is stressful. The point is, almost everything can cause you to feel stressed to some degree. LIFE IS STRESSFUL, but there are always workarounds to it; you have to find your outlet.

Stress can drive someone to do many unwanted things in their life. You're always down when someone tries to bring you up, you never let anything or anyone make you feel happy, and you just have a negative aura around you telling the world to back off. Instead of letting the stressed person or situation get to you, you should try 1 of the 3 things:

Take several slow, deep breaths to clear your thoughts and calm your body

Think about someone or something who always made you happy or feel a sense of encouragement

Always remember that no one can tell you who you are to keep to only positive thoughts in your head. One positive thought can lead to many

When a situation turns for the worse and you feel you may not be able to handle it, embrace it. If you try to fight the inevitable, it will always make things worse. When I say to embrace, I mean to adapt to the current situation. If you can embrace and adapt to it, life for you will be a lot easier for you. Dealing with change and stress are one in the same. For example: George has recently moved in to a new apartment with his girlfriend. He never lived with her by himself, and now he has bills as well. In the example, George now has to adapt to a new environment, plus he has to deal with the bills. Now one of two things can happen: He can allow this situation to become highly stressful or he can embrace the current state of things and be happy that he now has his own place to live, and a girlfriend to support him.

The point of dealing with stress is to have a life full of happiness and no regrets. You can always decide to make your life easy or difficult. It's always up to you.

Living with debt

2017-07-03T00:54:00.000-05:00

LIVING WITH DEBT

Everyone knows the nuisance of having to deal with bills every month. Fortunately, not everyone has to deal with outstanding debt. When credit card companies or loan companies send random e-mails or paper mail to your house, it makes you feel as if your credit is amazing. But in reality, it's just as mediocre as the rest of the population. Now this does not apply to people who actually monitor their score.

OK, let's be honest here, no one will always want to check their credit score. Nowadays with sites offering "free" credit scores, the majority population thinks there credit score is fine and dandy. On the other hand, there are multiple ways of paying for a more accurate credit score. Now I'm not saying that you necessarily should pay for a credit check; it's just that it's more accurate than these "free" websites. Yes, they're actually free, but free is a subjective term. In terms credit check websites, they are free but in no way accurate. I've seen that first hand.

Living with debt is painful experience and everyone who has outstanding debt can agree with that 100% of the time. Debt gets exponentially worse when you have more than you can swallow. It can make you feel as if your well-paying job isn't so well-paying. It literally can drain your monthly income if you allow it to get out of hand. Companies who know you're struggling will honestly try to "work" with you, but in the end, they are all still leeches who only care about themselves in ways that they think you can't comprehend, when in fact, it's fairly simply to understand what they're trying to do.

Credit card companies and loan companies have enticing techniques that somehow manage to work half the time. The way they go about it is to either send an email or paper mail to you, and start to say all these nice things about pre-approval and credit limit or loan amount. It's all a ruse to get what they want: money.

When it's all said and done, it's completely up to you to decide whether or not you want to take that money nonchalantly.