Alright so. If you’re watching the news like me (shut up, Josh), you would have seen the way nasty looking crash on Route 110. Cars have backed up for like literal miles for days because of it! I honestly was just so grateful it wasn’t on I-405--I had a day trip with Dee planned to Long Beach and I just about would have cried if I couldn’t get my tan on! Luckily it didn’t come to that, and as I write this I am soaking up some much needed Vitamin D. (Don’t worry, of course I remembered to apply sunscreen. We aren’t heathens are we?)
Oh no, I’ve gotten distracted again. Where was I? Right, so like the freeway. Traffic is killer right now because most people just up and left their cars! I’d sooner cut my hair off before I left my jeep just parked in the middle of a huge highway, so like it would never happen, obviously. But like now, as you could imagine, there’s just a lot of cars sitting on the highway with nobody to drive them. And get this, the homeless community of L.A. has just moved right in! Honestly, there are too many people who are less fortunate than me here in California. I mean, most people are jealous of me anyway, but like some people are so poor that they can’t even fathom my lifestyle, much less be jealous of it.
About two years ago I was the captain of the Pismo Beach Disaster Relief. Pretty killer right. And like, I realized that I am way lucky! Daddy is the most attentive father ever, and I’m fortunate enough that his fancy attorney job makes enough money to ensure that I never have a problem that some good ol’ retail therapy can’t fix. So obviously I have a lot of stuff, and I’m sure the poor Pismo Beach residents were over the moon to receive my donations. But like, for some people organized donations is a luxury. Imagine that! So like it’s really cool that these poor people are able to have shelter for at least a couple of days.
But like, here’s the crazy part. Despite not having much, everyone in the highway canyon is actually happy. It’s on the news! They’re all singing together, sharing food, and they’ve even got some sort of talk show going on. Though I shudder at getting dirt under my manicure, I saw one guy planting a garden in a rusted Cadillac. Maybe it’s all bronze age, but there’s some kind of cute je ne sais quoi about it.
I mean, now that I think of it, I actually do understand their happiness. When partaking in the disaster relief, I gave away some really dear things to me, like my skis. But after it was done, instead of being sad because the next week on my ski trip in lieu of using my custom skis, I had to rent used ones, I really just felt closer to the community. It was my actions that brightened someone’s day out in Pismo, and for that all I felt was joy! And maybe a little bit of sadness because those were custom but like now someone else’s life has been blessed with baby blue skis, and who else can say that.
I guess like, thinking about everything, I realize that maybe sometimes owning so much can get in the way of friendships. I mean, so many people must spend so much time envying my life, that they lose the opportunity to become friends with me. In conclusion, given the chance, the homeless people would try to become my friends rather than ask for my skis. Isn’t that such a beautiful thought!
I never thought I’d reach the conclusion that buying things sometimes gets in the way of having a close knit community, but then again I never thought that Amber could have a unique thought, but I saw her wearing an actually cute outfit combination that I haven’t thought of before.
I hope you guys found this post as enlightening as I did! I’m going to go reapply sunscreen now--I feel a burn coming on. Make sure to share my blog with your friends!
I'm outie!
-Cher