What do you do when your empire crumbles around you? What happens when everything you've worked on has meant nothing?
Say, you take a vacation. Not any roadtrip crap vacation, one to an exotic, strange land filled with nothing you know about but are dying to learn. It's something you can only do once, since your friend is inviting you since he'll be leaving there after a nasty divorce. You get the time off work, even though a store is closing to go on this once-in-a-lifetime vacation. And you deserve it. You've never missed a day of work. You have to live with an absolute ***** 19 hours a week. You DESERVE it.
So, you take the vacation. Nearly perfect, it is.
And when you get back, what do you have? No job. You took the vacation, the store is closed, and now the only wing left of the company is overstaffed. Lovely. To make things better, you are completely broke. You go on unemployment and donate plasma to scrape together some money. The plasma donation hurts, and you struggle just to stay on unemployment.
Then you hit a parked car. No worries, right? She charges the insurance. Your mom pays for the whole thing and expects money back. So now you are in debt, without a job, broke, and did I mention your previous employer hates you? Good luck getting another job.
And to make things bad to worse, that friend you went to Germany with is seeing someone else, before the divorce is final. He spends hours chatting with her. No big deal right? Until your only friend cancels any plans of moving into an apartment with you in favor of living with her.
So, what do you do when you are at wit's end? When you have lost everything that made you happy and gave your life meaning?
The only thing keeping you from ground zero is a hope. A hope that the girl at the game store actually likes you (because you know you like her), and fills you with a giddy happiness, unlike what you've felt before. Sometime soon you'll ask her on a date, hoping to God she'll say yes.
And if she says no....
I don't want to think about it.
Say, you take a vacation. Not any roadtrip crap vacation, one to an exotic, strange land filled with nothing you know about but are dying to learn. It's something you can only do once, since your friend is inviting you since he'll be leaving there after a nasty divorce. You get the time off work, even though a store is closing to go on this once-in-a-lifetime vacation. And you deserve it. You've never missed a day of work. You have to live with an absolute ***** 19 hours a week. You DESERVE it.
So, you take the vacation. Nearly perfect, it is.
And when you get back, what do you have? No job. You took the vacation, the store is closed, and now the only wing left of the company is overstaffed. Lovely. To make things better, you are completely broke. You go on unemployment and donate plasma to scrape together some money. The plasma donation hurts, and you struggle just to stay on unemployment.
Then you hit a parked car. No worries, right? She charges the insurance. Your mom pays for the whole thing and expects money back. So now you are in debt, without a job, broke, and did I mention your previous employer hates you? Good luck getting another job.
And to make things bad to worse, that friend you went to Germany with is seeing someone else, before the divorce is final. He spends hours chatting with her. No big deal right? Until your only friend cancels any plans of moving into an apartment with you in favor of living with her.
So, what do you do when you are at wit's end? When you have lost everything that made you happy and gave your life meaning?
The only thing keeping you from ground zero is a hope. A hope that the girl at the game store actually likes you (because you know you like her), and fills you with a giddy happiness, unlike what you've felt before. Sometime soon you'll ask her on a date, hoping to God she'll say yes.
And if she says no....
I don't want to think about it.
Didn't realize I posted Loki, I mean 1ce.
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