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Westcity
get the writing out of the way as reply to Coffee Shop

Abraham Kim
Westcity Spacecity dog
At the coffee shop he hoped Mari would be there. Knew she wouldn't. She probably lived someplace further out. Probably didn't make as much as Jackie. Maybe Mari lived out in Queens or Long Island. The people in this coffee shop looked hip and rich. A world Joey didn't belong...

Westcity
what breed? as reply to See you Soon

Abraham Kim
diner dog
Maxxx was confused. Why would James send him that photo. Maxxx wasn't stupid. He didn't follow the news, but when three people died locally then you couldn't not hear about it. Especially when you worked at a  diner .

A lot of people talked here. Talked a lot. They wouldn't shut...

Doug 28 - wiping Jack's ass as reply to To care for Someone

Abraham Kim
Jack dog
Emily didn't have a dog. Her family had one growing up.

Jack was sort of like a  dog for her now. The intimate level of understanding did that. She'd know what foods made him shit and fart. She'd know what foods made him happy. And once in awhile, she would...

Westcity
blue sky as reply to On Time

Abraham Kim
dog sky
Oh no! Not again. Come on. You shat twice now! Look, I don't even have any more baggies, so come on. Let's go.

He probably has no more shit left?

No he doesn't. It'll just be liquid. And I'll feel like an ass because my dog will be pooping and I won't...
Mindset
Lmao. I don't think the people who spend all night doing that in service of their companies last long. They'll eventually become normal salary men unwilling to put in any extra hours since they know they are unappreciated.

Now the people who do continue to spend their nights learning about Oracle or another easy to understand thingie they are driven by something else. This is not me saying that something else is good or bad or important or unimportant. Just pointing out that nobody stays up late nights to service their corporations long term unless they somehow eventually become valued more than a tiny 
dog
 

I do find 
family
to be the most important thing. I believe it's easy to sardonically laugh at people who say 'family is most important' but still spend most of their waking hours on other things...

i can't speak on their behalf but i have a feeling that i'm a fractal of the common-man... as in how i operate is how the average person operates. so i'll share how i operate to imply that i think this is what's going on with other people even though i just said i can't speak on their behalf lol.

I have a desire to improve. To improve requires resources. These resources may be skills or capital or social.

I understand that improvement here is completely subjective. I understand that my sense of improvement can come at the cost of macro destruction etc etc.

This desire to improve has been seeded by my desire to be a part of a family. Thus I desire to improve because i want to be an important member of a family.

Why do i want family? It's the only thing that matters to me. I don't mean family literally here. I like 
Seth Godin
's definition of family here:

"Family is the people when you need them they can't say no"

And the reason I think family is important is because of two things but let me start with the one that i think will resonate more with you.

1. Whenever i read a good story (novel/novella/short story) the keystone moments they capture are never about someone detaching from their humanity and buying their way out of inconvenience by paying the neo liberal machine. the stories always feature some situation when a change happens and it affects the character and their 'family'. they might be escaping an old family... or arriving at a realization about their old family. they might be finding a new family. or maybe they are realizing they have no family at all.

2. When you have no immediate health concerns the need for family might seem weak. Just a month ago I thought this too. Once you let's say face some life threatening or disabling disease straight on you realize that you might not just be able to buy your way out of this. 

To summarize I believe that family is what we'll seek when we face death head on. People who forget that they will die might stray away from family and think that it's intellelctual or stimulation they want forever.

But every single person on their death bed wants one thing. Just a matter of whether you want to accept that now or later.
Abraham Kim

Life Change

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Since I was around ten years old, my love for food was somehow amplified. I started to eat more, and with more came along "bad" food. I fell for popcorn , potato chips and chocolate . Although my braces set a limit on the chocolate input (since then, eating "normal"...