{"id":707,"date":"2021-10-26T12:21:15","date_gmt":"2021-10-26T16:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rthomas.xyz\/?p=707"},"modified":"2021-10-27T10:31:19","modified_gmt":"2021-10-27T14:31:19","slug":"an-ny-post-article-that-hit-home-to-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rthomas.xyz\/?p=707","title":{"rendered":"An NY Post article that hit home to me"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/rthomas.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/20210327_213523-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-712\" width=\"360\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rthomas.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/20210327_213523-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/rthomas.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/20210327_213523-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rthomas.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/20210327_213523-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rthomas.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/20210327_213523-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/rthomas.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/20210327_213523-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><figcaption>Grosse Pointe Village, 27 March 2021<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Wasn&#8217;t exactly sure how to title this article but it kind of hits home for me. Yes, that photo above has nothing to do with this article. But it&#8217;s my blog and I&#8217;ll do what I want. I found this article on the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/10\/23\/missing-colorado-mom-found-living-homeless-on-nyc-streets\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">New York Post<\/a>. If the New York Post won&#8217;t allow you to read, I&#8217;ll summarize it for you. A Colorado woman named Alyssa Oliver, 39, suffered an apparent mental break and left her home in Denver in the summer of 2021. She left in a 2000 Suzuki that was in need of repairs. The car was found on August 9th in a 2-hour parking space in NYC. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She was spotted by some video by a family member and Oliver is said to be in NYC still. Her family has hired a PI to investigate. The PI did locate her but couldn&#8217;t legally take her anywhere, so he gave her $100 and urged Oliver to contact family right away. Oliver reportedly did attempt to contact her husband in September with no avail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This story does hit home to me. It&#8217;s due to me nearly saying <em>fuck it<\/em> in Spring 2019 and going on a one-way trip to Las Vegas with the money I have saved. Heading to Las Vegas on a trip on a steady diet of cocaine and hookers. Is that the right thing to do? No. It isn&#8217;t. And why would I want to do this? Because I was able to briefly advance in my so-called career, later to be told that <strong>there was a problem.<\/strong> To sum it up, I was going on my one-way trip to Sin City on a death trip of coke and sluts until I die or burnout because I finally had it with being told, <strong>&#8220;We have a problem here.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And this wasn&#8217;t the first time in my life I&#8217;ve been told this. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But also, in the defense of this situation, I had a choice to keep the said job. However, in fear of the company in question despite for supervisors, I feared they would push me in that position down the road. I painfully said no to the said job. After it was all said and done, I surely thought a lot about leaving for good. The thought was, &#8220;why the hell should I do the right thing, only to be told there&#8217;s a problem down the road?&#8221; Why continue? Fuck it, I&#8217;ll take my cash, head out to Sin City and let the chips fall where they might be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of course, I did not do it. And this article about this woman made me think to myself about what if I did do this. If I haven&#8217;t died from a drug overdose or a STD, or Covid, I&#8217;d probably in the same situation as that woman right now. Only my version would be me in Sin City, floating around homeless and perhaps spotted by a family member or a friend. Next, for one of them to hire a PI. Perhaps that PI would find me and urge me to contact my family and friends. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Going to late May 2020, I found myself at a job that anybody could do, which is where I&#8217;m at right now. The job isn&#8217;t advanced really, and there is a lot of overtime available. I will continue on this job while the iron is still hot. Do I want to advance? Of course! But one thing I will probably not do, is push and push hard to advance. Next to hear that there is a god-damn problem and I&#8217;m being put back to the position I was at, or being put further away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I know people would read this and say I&#8217;m a whiny bitch. And you know what, I can agree on that perspective. However, all I can say to those folks is that I have a god-damn learning disability. I have ADHD and OCD. Trust me when I say this, it&#8217;s more difficult for me to learn something that it is to the average person. I have ran into people who aren&#8217;t so friendly to us folks with ADHD in both my personal and so-called professional life. A lot of people and corporations out there aren&#8217;t so friendly to the mentally troubled out there. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But also, I&#8217;m in investor and I probably got some cash in these companies that don&#8217;t respect mental health. Personally, I think they should but that would be costly. Most investors and corporations don&#8217;t want that kind of trouble and other troubles that anyone can think of.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When it comes to these individuals, most times than not, I talk back. One such instance I recalled was in 2014 where a co-worker often talked crap to me about my mental illness. I found out later that this man has a morbidly obese wife at home (heh-heh, no wonder that guy was miserable). Each time he would talk shit about me, I&#8217;d make fun of his shitty marriage to an ugly beast. He would later complain to me about bashing his wife. I said, &#8220;stop fucking with me and I won&#8217;t insult that ugly monster you married.&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trust me, I could go on forever with my stories on how the Special Ed idiot won the war of words with the opposition. Next for a boss, parent, authority figure, etc. to tell me what I did or say was 100% wrong in the end. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With Alyssa Oliver, hopefully this one ends well for her and she can get back home to Denver. I wonder if something came up that triggered her to run away to NYC. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Apologies for this article not being so well-written. I&#8217;m speaking from the heart on this one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Peace, Love and Fractions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Robbie T.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If the New York Post won&#8217;t allow you to read, I&#8217;ll summarize it for you. 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