Hello. My friend, @stamets@lemmy.dbzer0.com, is about to become homeless in just 24 hours-He’s short on 700$CAD for this month, since he’s spent this entire month looking for a roommate; and “found” one; only, this roommate did not have the money to pay rent anyway, and would have made everything worse.
So here we are. Winter is coming and he’ll be homeless for a whole month. He is in Newfoundland, it’ll be incredibly dangerous for him and i am concerned.
Please, if you have even a dollar to spare, i ask of you to donate to him; anything helps. https://ko-fi.com/stamets
Thank you. ❤️
Why you do this? Like I appreciate it but I wasn’t going to make another post. I had already made a mutual aid post like a month ago because my roommate fucked me over. Then a few days ago I was helping aeronmelon with his mutual aid post. I have asked of enough help of Lemmy for both myself and for others. It’s unfair of me to ask for help again. I’m not worth the effort to begin with and just because I post shit I have saved from elsewhere doesn’t mean that I’m deserving of more attention than someone else on here. Other people need help too and it’s not fair of me to be asking for it and taking it from others.
For contextual purposes though because someone messaged me asking if it was real, yeah. It is. But I’ll figure it out somehow. I had texted my sister a few weeks ago asking if she could take my cat if need be if I couldn’t find a roommate. She said she’d ask around to see if anyone was looking for a room. A friend of hers suggested her cousin and gave me his number. We started chatting and he seemed fine but his selfie that he sent me looked odd so I looked at his facebook. Other selfies were less preened and specific and he looked kinda drunk in a few of them. The thing that I noticed the most was pinpoint pupils but he said he was on disability for an injury from a job so I waved it off. He then kept being wishy washy on when he was coming in. Initially it was Tuesday by bus (he is in a different town on the island). Then it was thursday via his aunt. Then thursday he said his aunt was trying to decide between leaving that day to drive in or going in the morning. That evening he said the next day he was taking a bus.
This morning I woke up to a message from my sister asking if he moved in yet. I said no and then passed back out. When I woke back up she said it’s because her friend was telling her to tell me to not let him in. Apparently he was back on drugs and causing issues. It wasn’t just her telling my sister not to let him in, but my sisters friends father as well. Evidently other family members are quite concerned but when found out he’s an addict they last second at least warned me. That being said his bus leaves in like 2 hours and I told him a while ago that he can’t move in after all this but like… I’m kind of afraid he’s going to show up tonight, late at night when the bus arrives, and start beating on my fucking door.
I’m not worth the effort to begin with and just because I post shit I have saved from elsewhere doesn’t mean that I’m deserving of more attention than someone else on here. Other people need help too and it’s not fair of me to be asking for it and taking it from others
I think we as people are all deserving of the help if it’s needed. There may always be someone that’s “worse off” but that doesn’t mean you don’t deserve a hand too. That’s the whole goal of society in my view, to help support everyone if we can. If there are people ‘more deserving’ of help and we have limited resources, people that provide the assistance can decide what they can do, it’s still good to ask if you aren’t getting your essential needs met.
I don’t have any good advice really but I hope your situation gets worked out soon.
True but I feel like a dick being in a position asking for help again when other people need it for the first time. Especially when it feels like I often get undue attention on Lemmy because people just see my username a lot. Like I 100% used that position to help out Aeronmelon the other day with that but I’d never do that for me. Hell when I made my own mutual aid post last time I don’t think I even mentioned the post outside of the community that it was in. I might have, not sure. But I don’t remember doing so. Honestly I just fucking hate me so it’s hard to even ask for help when other people I feel need it way more than I do.
It’s understandable, I’ve needed help from friends and family a lot at times and I know there are many I see all the time that need much more than me. But people are choosing to help you if they send donations or whatever, it’s a kind act that is good for the person doing it too. You give them an opportunity to help someone in need, and with the gratitude you feel from that you can be inspired to help others more. It’s a good thing overall, as far as I can tell you aren’t a jerk and deserve the kindness too
Thank you… I’m sorry. About all of this. To anyone reading this…
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