I have been delivering early morning newspapers for about 2 1/2 years now. Not just one, but 3. Am I insane? You bet I am! Alas, there is reason behind this madness. One day, a Proverbial Anvil was thrown at my head. And ooh-boy!, did it hurt something... my ego, my pride, and several other things that I thought made me "a man". It knocked me down for the count. When I came to, the harsh realization that I have spent my entire life mis-managing my finances finally hit home. I had always thought, "It will all work itself out in the end..." Well, the end came and I found myself so over my head in debt.
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Sure, I would've gone down the road that led to filing Bankruptcy (as I know many people who have), but I decided that if I was going to be a statistic, I'd rather be included with those who owned up to what they did...to themselves. I wanted to take charge of my finances and my life, I wanted to claw my way out of this hole that I ultimately buried myself into.
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Its easy to blame a financial mess on the loss of a job, a spouse, the President of the United States of America, etc... Its kind of like a child who goes to his first day of kindergarten. His parents tried to prepare him for this next step in his life, but the child never took it serious. This child is too excited about playtime to notice that he has wet his pants...and is laughed at by all of the other kids. Well is this kid going to keeping messing his pants or take measures to make sure it doesn't happen again?
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With "Memoirs Of A Paperboy", I am going to attempt to "psycho-analyze" myself and my situation. Take a hard look at how and why I ended up in this financial mess. What I have learned, what I am doing about it...and well, talk about flingin' newspapers in the early morning hours. The Good, The Bad, and the Dreadfully Ugly.
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I pray this is therapeutic for me. I hope that at the end of this, I can look back with my head held high...and of course click my heals together and scream out a loud "WOOT!"
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"w00t" was originally an trunicated expression common among players of Dungeons and Dragons tabletop role-playing game for "Wow, loot!" Thus the term passed into the net-culture where it thrived in video game communities and lost its original meaning and is used simply as a term of excitement.
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May you read this and be inspired to get your finances in order. May we all teach our children while they are young, so they do not grow up with hopes and aspirations of being...a Paperboy.
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Sure, I would've gone down the road that led to filing Bankruptcy (as I know many people who have), but I decided that if I was going to be a statistic, I'd rather be included with those who owned up to what they did...to themselves. I wanted to take charge of my finances and my life, I wanted to claw my way out of this hole that I ultimately buried myself into.
.
Its easy to blame a financial mess on the loss of a job, a spouse, the President of the United States of America, etc... Its kind of like a child who goes to his first day of kindergarten. His parents tried to prepare him for this next step in his life, but the child never took it serious. This child is too excited about playtime to notice that he has wet his pants...and is laughed at by all of the other kids. Well is this kid going to keeping messing his pants or take measures to make sure it doesn't happen again?
.
With "Memoirs Of A Paperboy", I am going to attempt to "psycho-analyze" myself and my situation. Take a hard look at how and why I ended up in this financial mess. What I have learned, what I am doing about it...and well, talk about flingin' newspapers in the early morning hours. The Good, The Bad, and the Dreadfully Ugly.
.
I pray this is therapeutic for me. I hope that at the end of this, I can look back with my head held high...and of course click my heals together and scream out a loud "WOOT!"
.
"w00t" was originally an trunicated expression common among players of Dungeons and Dragons tabletop role-playing game for "Wow, loot!" Thus the term passed into the net-culture where it thrived in video game communities and lost its original meaning and is used simply as a term of excitement.
.
May you read this and be inspired to get your finances in order. May we all teach our children while they are young, so they do not grow up with hopes and aspirations of being...a Paperboy.
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