Re: Very disappointed by some people
@Dark, my brother tends to over think things. My folks occasionally hire him to do some tasks around their house. My Dad says his over thinking everything looking for hidden meanings can get really annoying. My impression is that he feels like he has to walk on egg shells around everyone else. He has a rather checkered history, maybe it's the effect that history has on him.
A couple of years ago after returning home from his last stay as a guest of the state in one of their gray bar hotels, he mentioned getting a computer to learn some computer skills he could use to find work. Despite what I was going through with being newly blind and looking for rehabilitation training, I decided to help him towards that goal. A year and a computer later, he made the remark that he was kidding himself if he thought he could learn computer skills instead of just wasting time with it. I believe he said that to me so I'd stop inquiring how his self training was going, because there was no self training going on in the first place. I think that at the time the only way I could describe the way I felt is betrayed.
He is always talking about getting is life back on track, but in five years, he hasn't done a thing towards that goal. And in all that time, he's being supported by our parents, who are retired. My feeling is that they are retired, they should be enjoying their lives, not supporting kids who are for all appearances sakes, are just plain lazy.
I'm thinking that instead of dealing with him, maybe I should hire the services of an in home assistance service, where on a pre arranged scheduled someone comes to your home to assist you with tasks you can't do yourself. Things like reading your mail to you, or filling out forms, or helping you label thing by identifying them for you, etc. Since they are there to do a job that you are paying them to do, I believe they'll be a lot more cooperative than my brother was.
It's just so disappointing because it's your family and you'd like to think your family is better than that.
A little more information than I was planning, but screw it!
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