Reply #61: I would never insult...it makes no fucking difference to me, who has bucks

[LaPera]

and who doesn't...I learned long ago about money and about the people who lust after it - I was poor enough, maybe lucky enough, perhaps intelligent enough and definitely sensitive enough, to recognize the realness from the bullshit... growing up in SF as I did...at a time as Carlos Santana, who had been in every town across this country and every country in the world said..."If you weren't in San Francisco in the sixties, you missed it!". Many places were amazing then, but not quite like SF...still, many had the chance there and missed it, maybe they weren't equipped to care...it was different and enlightening in SF than anywhere else I'd ever been...still it passed right by many people who were here right there during it all, and didn't see it, nor get it, passed them right by.... many of my friends included.... they saw it all I suppose as just style, fad or fashion...and the bucks became the most important thing in their life and still is......I wanted real. I needed more than that so I looked and found more, my soul perhaps needed more, in that exact time and place that changed me... the phoniness, image, and the bullshit was all around, still is, but there also were a lot of true people, real people trying....each day recognising what was real, as well as recognizing the games, the bullshit and the egos... still, one can't get completely away from it all, so it becomes how and where is best to achieve some sort of positive place in ones mind to make it easier...getting away physically is what's worked for me..always good therapy...Now I live further north in a very liberal area...I help when I can & when I feel I should and sometimes don't really feel like it...much easier to enjoy the sunny days here on the ocean with a organic sweet bud, music in the air...so I must force myself to get off my ass because even that gets old very quickly....Since I am in a liberal area on the coast where people with no money drift up and down the coast, because the weather is mild all year long here, also means there's many who need help... And I do help, I give and I listen and do favors and I love it...I'm doing well in my life now financially...but that can be gone tomorrow...I try very hard not to make judgements.... ever though I do get angry and frustrated when I read about the ignorance and greed and hate...yet full circle I was able & lucky enough to see and hold on to my peace, (not always, but mostly) it was there for whomever was able to open up...though I still do have a hard time understanding shopping at Wal-Mart...Perhaps that's where I need to understand and learn. Maybe because we don't have one anywhere in our county, voted them out twice, when they wanted to move in...But I know I would personally look for other options, there always there. Knowing I have much to learn... I'll keep trying...But I don't put down.... just suggest!