Friendship and Life on the Streets of Amsterdam

in #life8 years ago (edited)

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of the first things I figured out after a while living here a little while is that it generally doesn't help to have people you hang out with wandering around also with you.

The sleeping places usually are too small for more than one. Whenever you are "trespassing", by this I mean accessible public spaces where you are not allowed to be or particular things you cannot do there - sleep, sex, sewing, bicycle repair... there is always nerves about when the jaws of teh laws will snap you. Usually nothing serious happens but the nerves....

Or simply not having any money or any stuff to share. Sometimes like yesterday, I had money, and it was stuck in @blocktrades system until late evening. It can seem like you are bad company, a leech, it is easier to bear poverty alone. It can kill friendships.

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True it is easier to bear poverty solo

Hang in there man! :)
Btw, do you have any fixed address yet?

No, not yet. Tomorrow I am seeing the welfare agency for a benefit payment... after that I can start looking for places available with the housing service. I don't mind if I live outside amsterdam, just somewhere near where I can get a job with an IT company.

Tomorrow also I have a power down payout and some other bigger payouts coming through so I will at least maybe have a laptop next week, I have been looking and there might be something reasonable that I can afford.

Please ping me when you have an address. I can't really promise anything but I'll try to see if I can get my hands on some older hardware for free, then if you have an address it would probably be possible to send it to you, or something. Not sure what the pricing on that would be, though.

Sure. I can arrange a safe place to deliver it to if necessary. The drop in centers will let me do that once in a while.

You sound so interesting! Love Amsterdam!

two flags! woo! how kind.

It's some goof doing that. On a flagging rampage. :(

i know, someone posted about it. I have fallen into a funk so I am taking it hard.

When I was in Sofia, the rewards went so much further. I hate it here and, well, I don't know what to do. Part of me just wants to get away as quickly as I can. This life is cruel here. Elsewhere it doesn't hurt so bad.

You get the first week's power down tomorrow. Hopefully that will help some.

I'm following your trail by the way on Streemian. You and 4 others with 20% weight on each. Not a lot, but trying to spread my upvotes around more.

Must be funny when you vote on your own comments :) I didn't realise anyone was following me, I thought I turned it off... I can't use streemian properly with my smartphone browser... It isn't letting me upgrade and whe I set to follow within days I am down to under 50% vote power.

My SP keeps steemin up though... now over 6500Steem worth...

Did @xeroc set it not to vote when the operator votes on your own posts now?

I think it is set up like that - not to vote, but I'm not 100% sure about it.

Good work on building up your sp! :)

Why this post has flags?

some crazy person. you can read about it in some recent posts, one titled something like steem's most wanted.

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The girl was an answer to a prayer... I have been talking regularly since I was in Rome in October last year. The straight path sometimes hurts. I am sure that better things are coming. Even though it was difficult I learned that I still have a heart.

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