What the Day Brings

We have a new reveal today. More burden is heaped upon my shoulders as my mom says to me, as usual, "You've got something in the mail today," and gestures over to the dresser where lying waiting for me is a paper tiger that threatens to consume my every hope. There are consequences to our actions. The Outpost Apartments has finally sent me a bill 843.34$ which I am expected to pay. This brings my total of expenditures to a total of 14,365.70$ about 600 more dollars than I had taken account of.
Truthfully, I've been doing more than I feel is expected of me, walking over in the almost breezy autumn wind of a Texas winter to Chunk E. Cheese, the place where a kid can be a kid, to apply for a position. The way in was barred by several theater ropes and the glaring red seats and flashing games nearly blinded me as I came in. The application I filled out was to go to a too-busy-talking-on-his-cell-phone manager, so I handed it to the lady at the counter instead. I forgot to put what position I wanted. I could use Neville's rememberal in Harry Potter, to help me not lose track of where I'm going and where I've been.
Coming home, the final test of the day, was to e-mail several companies hiring writers; one for writing short articles at 5-7$ a pop, while the other was translating a video game from French to English. I don't know any French, except for the few French/English words that we've adopted into our language. Champagne, lingerie, and armoir. I might have even made that last word up. I do hold in my cup the ability to learn, no matter how the brain of human beings is said to start to shrink after 20. i.e. I'm trainable. Which means what? Dance when the organ grinder plays? There's worse things I guess, like not getting any coins in my cup.
I'll end with a quote from Fr. Alfred D'Souza, "For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin -- real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way. Something to be got through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life." And that is how I view my debt today. Not as a hump in the road to get over, but the road itself, as it twists and curves to create the pathway of my life.