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January 8, 2016 at 11:56 am #91800AnonymousInactive
Dear all,
2015 has been emotionally, professionally and financially devastating for me. It hit me really hard, behind my back, and unexpectedly. Well, there cannot be always good times. I will not be going in details with my situation to burden you. I have started several times a thread in this forum to describe my sorrows as I did a year ago on that same forum. But every time I started, it felt useless to me. I don’t want to go through the same stuff over and over again. I just want to dust myself up and move on.
Instead, I have decided to overcome my embarrassment and reach out to other people for help for the first time in my life. My birthday is coming really soon in 2 weeks, and I am not in the mood for a big party. The best birthday present for me would be to have a little bit more peace of mind. So I would be really grateful if you could support my cause on below link:
http://gogetfunding.com/a-friendly-hand/Please feel free to criticize me if you find this personal cause disturbing, as I realize people are struggling with far more dangerous difficulties. I am just doing this as a last resort, and hoping for a better and more meaningful future.
January 8, 2016 at 12:57 pm #91817AnonymousGuestDear Nelly/Reader:
In your website you are asking for money so that you can pay your bills and start a small business to support yourself and help young, unemployed people with vocational training and such. You do not want to go into details of your situation so not to burden the reader… so you are only asking for money.
anita
January 8, 2016 at 1:20 pm #91820AnonymousInactiveDear Anita,
last year surprised me with a family crisis. Long broken relationships were terminated after I realized they have gathered together to discuss distribution of family properties without me. They deprived me of my legal share in favor of my sister after as my father passed away 5 years ago. But the worst hit apart from behind the scene negotiations was that they completely turned their back on me morally and blamed me for being an awlful person to them. Despite the fact that I am the nicest and kindest person according to people who know me and despite my belief that I am a bad person. People who know me always tell me I allow too much for people and am a push-over, even at times I feel bad for standing up for myself. So their accusations shocked me even deeper. And the worst part was, that I felt betrayed and let down unexpectedly by my support system (yes I still used to consider my family a support system despite some communication issues) in a very bad time of my professional life. Changes were done and due to workforce “optimization” I was too expensive for the company and was forced to leave my job in order to free space for cheaper workforce. Because things happened so quickly I did not have much emotional resources to do much about it, I fought till the end, but got exhausted, lost weight and ended up with a major panick attach. So I left my job as quickly as possible in order to regain my health, but I had not spared any money. My last salary was transferred to me in December and since then I have cut all expenses sitting at my home saving money. But I have also bank loan payments which are due every month, and basically have almost no money left. There are no close people around me to ask for a loan that could afford to lend me some money, the bank is no longer an option, and I am still strugling to find any job to fix my situation despite the fact that I have not entirely recuperated from this emotional and nervous crisis. I have deleted my campaign as I realized I sound like an internet scam.
January 8, 2016 at 2:16 pm #91823AnonymousGuestDear Nelly:
Yes, lots and lots and lots… and lots of internet scams, and even more, many, many, many… people and organizations, dishonest and honest asking for money, online, knocking on people’s doors, on TV, radio, at the entrance to supermarkets, here and there and everywhere. So many, many requests. It would take a full time job for a person to research all the request in a day so to figure out who is honest and who is not, who is likely to use the donated money well and who is not… actually, it requires for each person to figure these things out, it requires every person to hire a team of employees to research these things. Since the person doing all this figuring would have no time to work for a living, he or she would not have money to pay the team of employees, each of whom will be asking for money themselves so to make it possible to research what they are not paid to research by the guy who hired them and doesn’t have the money to pay them.
It gets complicated that way. I have given lots of money to others, so has my husband, he more than me, to so many random people who knocked on our door and asked him to buy cookies for their causes. I asked him to stop because I was worried we will not have enough money for my oatmeal in the mornings.
So you have a lot of competition when you ask for money here or elsewhere.
Because my antennas directed toward scams have been triggered, I am now triggered. (sad face icon here).
anita
January 9, 2016 at 12:23 am #91849AnonymousInactiveYes, and I only used a donation website, not a scheme one which steals your sensitive data, it was only up to you to decide whether to help me or not and how much to give. I would also appreciate a good advise. And my campaign was a small one, my target was 1500 euro, not tens of thousands as other campaigns. Maybe instead of my pity situation I should have used another kind of description, like one of the causes was “help me save for breast implants”. This is embarrassing, my life is a complete mess. And besides, I briefly described in this forum as well as the campaign description what I need the money for, and you say you read that but still claimed I have not said anything about my situation? I think that you are a skeptical person by default.
For the record, the expenses that I need to cover for bills and bank payment cost around 1000 euro, and I need to have some money for shopping (food, you know). The idea for my own business was mentioned because I did not want people to think of me as a desperate person who does not know what to do with their life. Don’t you think it is ridiculous to ask for 1500 euro for initial investment for a business when you also have bills to pay? I realize how pitty I sound writing this but even if they call me for an interview on my most recent applications, it will pass more than a month until I get a paycheck, for which period I am looking for all kinds of options for financial support.
If you pay so much attention an energy to read all this and reply to my post, why didn’t you use this energy constructively to ask me for more information and perhaps a proof of my situation? Just curious. And when I provided you with more details, you were even more skeptical.
I really don;t know who to turn to as I used to make a decent salary which in my poor country was way better than the income of my relatives and friends, I used to help them financially from time to time. And despite all that, I still had to take a bank loan and payments are now waiting for me. So I am practically broke. And embarassed, and people around me don;t like it that I need to receive help from them this time. THey were used to the idea that I am strong and have it figured it out, that no matter how they treat me I am still strong and hard working. Well I am not made of iron, I am broken in the inside now, I could not stand it anymore, the ways they always provoked me and made me do the impossible. And they way they counted on my strenght to make a good living. But guess what happens when there is so much pressure on you for years and years, and in one year you receive 3 major punches from life. And what happens when you are being betrayed from family, from coworkers and from a partner. You lose the very ground under your feet.And especially for you anita, I share this
Everyone who is jealous of how I live and what I have, I wish him to have the same, to understand their lives.
Anyone who thinks I’m weak, I wish to experience all that I carry in my heart and try everything I tried to short years, to understand the force.
Anyone who thinks I’m funny, I mask to understand how difficult it is to wear it in a world of distorted perceptions and chaos.
Anyone who hates me, I love to understand what forgiveness and feel the power of the Divine.
Everyone who loves me, I love her to understand what support and friendship.
Anyone who betrayed me wish to be transmitted in the same way to learn what it is to believe people when they hurt.
Anyone who thinks he’s better, smarter, wiser and knowledgeable than me, I wish to live with their wisdom and to rob her fruits.
Anyone who hurt me, I wish to hurt the same words survive these wounds, to understand the wisdom of the pain and the invaluable lesson of awareness.
Anyone ever told “will crush” give a smile and give him the right to do it, give it to him with joy.
Whoever loves me sincerely, I give myself – a whole!
(sorry for google translation)January 9, 2016 at 12:38 am #91852AnonymousInactiveOne thing I forgot to mention, not only I have helped friends and relatives when needed, if you read carefully that on the campaign too, I have participated every year in charity campaigns and have strong civil positions concerning social problems in my country. This in case you acuse me of being an ex corporate selfish person wining of not having enough money now. Most of my expenses are for the bank payment. ANd yes I have a large debt, this is because I paid for the major repairs of the appartment I live in after a major flood, for which on top of that I got blamed by the owner (my own mother) because that way I (can you imagine) for some reason appear to have prevented her from doing what she thinks is best for her own property. But that’s another story. The point is I did not spend money unwisely over time. As pointed in my deleted campaign description, I used my income to support my university education as my parents wouldn’t, and for seminars and courses, oh hell, do I owe you any more explanations??? My life is alredy FUCKED UP ENOUGH
January 9, 2016 at 12:41 am #91855AnonymousInactiveSO DOES IT REALLY PAY OFF TO BE A DECENT PERSON AND HELP YOURSELF AND OTHERS? WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU ARE THE ONE THAT NEEDS TEMPORARY PUSH TO STAND UP ON YOUR FEET AGAIN??? TELL ME ANITA
January 9, 2016 at 9:11 am #91879AnonymousGuestDear Nelly:
I feel sad reading your latest posts. Just before I read: “do I owe you any more explanations?” I thought to myself to write to you: You do Not owe me any explanations. And then you wrote it yourself. Indeed you do not owe me any explanations. You owe me nothing at all.
And before I read your latest posts, I thought to myself: I think Nelly is real, honest and she really believes people will help her … just because she needs help.
Let me explain, think as I type this: you really think the world is fair or eventually will be fair, just. You suffered injustices which you detailed and you think that somehow, those injustices will be corrected. You think that because you were a good person, gave to charity, that someone will help you when you need help. And you think strangers will do it, give you money simply because you need it.
I am the only one replying to you. I think lots of people, once they “sniff” a request for money, move on. Because there are so many requests out there: people are bombarded every day with requests for money: at home by mail, phone, computer (internet), TV… on the freeway entrances by people holding signs, on the entrances to supermarkets… everywhere one turns. Try to understand this:
As you feel your real need for money and ask for it, you are asking for it from people bombarded every day by such requests, every day of their lives: many people working hard, paying taxes (that go to help others in need, much wasted), may people who in addition to paying taxes and paying their bills, multiple bills, also donate to church and charities…people can not help everyone, it is impossible. And the constant pressure to GIVE GIVE GIVE really is ABUSIVE to us folks.
We have problems too, challenges too, we do not deserve to be bombarded day and night, everywhere by people telling us: GIVE US, GIVE US, GIVE US. It makes many of us uncomfortable at the least and PERSECUTED, really, chased like animals by the ongoing, none stop requests for money.
You do not owe me explanations and i do not owe you explanations either. You explained to me anyway and I reciprocated with explaining to you how things look from my end.
Life is not fair and not just, Nelly. I only hope you don’t cross the line from being honest, as you appear to be now, to the world of dishonesty, following the particular logic: if I can’t get help by being honest, then I have no choice but be dishonest. Many people do.
My best wishes to you.
anita -
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