Friday, November 3, 2023

We need each other to survive

“Please don't make me retire. My job is the only thing that keeps me alive. I never married, and my dog is dead.” The Simpsons episode is “Marge Gets a Job” — Season 4, Episode 7

I don't see working as slavery like people have been saying online. I see working as providing a service. If you provide something that someone needs you make it available to them. A service is something that the public needs, such as transport, communications facilities, hospitals, or energy supplies, which is provided in a planned and organized way by the government or an official body. The meaning of the word service is helpful activity. Professionals, firefighters, police officers etc used to go to my high school to speak with the students in the classrooms. A female police officer who went to speak to my class said to us that she's a people person. She used to enjoy working with people. I was a teenager at the time I was in high school, now I'm almost fifty years old. The female police officer who said that she's a people person could be dead already. A teacher who took us on a trip to Canada already died. Her name was Ms. Serrano. She was Puerto Rican. To me working is not slavery. It is contributing to our society. Ants work for the good of the colony. I learned about people who retire, they feel useless, they get depressed then they die. Two window installers came to my house to fix my room window and they are very happy. One of them is always making jokes. At the autoshop where I used to work when we were not so busy we used to have conversations with each other. My co-workers were Dominicans and they used to go a lot to The Dominican Republic for vacation. One of my co-workers was a Christian. One day he opened his Bible at the autoshop and he showed me a verse when King Salomon was given gifts. After he showed me that verse I got motivated to read The Bible. One day when I was at home I read the whole book of Deuteronomy and I told my Christian co-worker about it. There was a time in my life I was looking for answers and luckily I decided to read all the psalms. After I read psalm one I began to keep my distance from certain people. That was the best thing to do, I don't regret it and I still do it. I began to heal when I began to stay away from people and being by myself nothing bad happens to me. When I was younger I remember my sister sharing with me things about The Bible and when we were at the house she mentioned to me about reading the whole Bible. One day after I finished working I was walking home, there was an old Jehova's witness lady outside, we started talking and she mentioned to me about reading the whole Bible in one year. After my sister and that old lady mentioned to me about reading the whole Bible I was always interested in reading the whole Bible. I have a nice phone and I also use it to read books with the Kindle app. I like the Bible and I was looking for a website to read The Bible. I found a nice website to read the whole Bible called Biblestudytools.com. To read the whole Bible I decided to open two tabs on my browser, one tab with the old testament, and another tab with the new testament. So I used to read a chapter of an old testament book then I used to open the other tab to read a chapter of a new testament book then the next day or next time I used to do the same and gradually I finished reading the whole Bible. I didn't memorize it, I just read it and I know how to find information from it using Google. 

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