Your dreams and imagination evolved as a view into another universe. As with the current beliefs, you cannot decipher technical information – no words in books, no details of how devices work, so even if you can describe things you see from another place, you could not reproduce a working version.
Now how do you convince others that the things your are seeing are really happening without being labeled insane? And how could you use this information to benefit yourself or others? Take a peek into the multiverse to see how other versions of yourself have solved these problems…
haha say no more. I’m from Toronto and have never been to the Appalachians (rural or not), but uh… that area of America is well known. Infamous, even. I’m a bit surprised there’s a discernible gay community there at all. There’s a lot of “parTying” here too (I see what you did there), not my vibe at all. As someone from outside of America looking in (because we are perpetually bombarded with American culture) it seems like the vast majority of the country is anti-intellectual. Which is of course by design, it’s much easier to stage an authoritarian coup if the majority is too dumbed down to think critically and fight it. Plus starve the beast, wedge the class divide further, and you have masses of people fighting each other for crumbs. I suspect your life would be greatly improved if you were able to get the hell out of there (of course that is easier said than done). I can’t imagine it’s going to get much better there anytime soon.
Wow, imagine waiting 10 years to be with a meth dealer. That man clearly has some serious issues. And the gall to assume that someone would agree to be in a long-term relationship with an expiry date. Plus if things end up going really well, and he doesn’t want to wait for his meth-man anymore and just be fully committed to you, you then have a potentially angry ex who just got out of jail, expecting his guy to still be waiting for him. No matter which way that would go it would be absurdly messy.
What in the fuck? If something like that happened here it would be front page news. But the way you describe it, and the fact that it has a colloquial term, makes it seem like it’s a common occurrence? That’s fucked up to the point that I wouldn’t be surprised if you could apply for asylum in Canada because of it.
Okay, with all of that in mind I’d probably also be hesitant to accept and integrate friends into my life, and would have a very difficult time dating.
It’s not the most common thing in the world, and to be honest with you, the majority of people around here don’t hate the gays anymore (they’ve moved on to the trans!), but yeah, it happens. It just generally isn’t reported as being motivated by their sexual orientation. It’s just a random attack, or drug related, or whatever.
Jesus, I’d move to Canada in a heart beat. Sadly, I’m one of those working poor you hear about. No marketable skill that would let me. I know y’all have your own set of problems, but to be somewhere I wouldn’t have to worry about healthcare? Dream come true. Feel like marrying a southern neighbo(u)r for a few years? Just long enough to get me in. Lol.
Where’s my ring?!
Also, we’re all working poor. Wealth has transferred to the hands of a few. Of course some of us have slightly more than others, but from the perspective of those with all the wealth we’re all just living on pennies.
I’m sure you have SOME kind of skills that could be marketable if massaged the right way, no?
32, halfway through a bachelor’s in creative writing, mainly worked as a security guard (read receptionist), cashier, and inbound call centers. :/
But fr, how does one woo a Canadian for citizenship? Teach me, and I promise I will make the daily offering to Tim Horton and eat the ritual poutine at least once weekly!
You made it halfway through a bachelor’s in creative writing, that’s an accomplishment in itself! Have you tried to get work adjacent to what you were studying in school? Applied for any remote copy editing work? You have skills, you just have to develop them and promote yourself.
hah, fun fact, I don’t think I went to Tim Horton’s until I was like… 22 maybe? I grew up in downtown Toronto and there were just none in the city, they were always more rural / small town and highway rest stations kind of thing. They eventually started popping up in the city, and I tried them a few times, but they’re mostly garbage. To me Tim Horton’s is the place where rural / small town people stop in the morning for a quick and cheap drive-through cup of coffee on their way to the farm or whatever it is rural people do. They always pop up on road trips though, so when you’ve been on the road for a while they can seem like a bit of an oasis, which is probably how they’ve stayed in business all these years. I don’t really drink coffee and have heard their coffee is garbage, their baked goods are mediocre at best, and their food is questionable. I see they’re in the US now – I wonder if they’re any better down there?
I also think I’ve had poutine maybe once in my life, and it wasn’t even real poutine (you’d need to go to Québec for that), it was knock off poutine in downtown Toronto that drunk weekend clubbers and the like seem to buy a lot of.
All important bits of information if you’re going to marry a Canadian. 😛 There are a lot of other requirements beyond just marriage, also: https://www.cic.gc.ca/english/helpcentre/answer.asp?qnum=357&top=5
Real talk though: start making friends with people in the community in Toronto or Montréal, and try to visit to see if you even like it here. Toronto is kind of like… if you took the lower part of Manhattan and made it even more devoid of culture. Toronto has changed a lot in the last 10 years. There are still some nice communities, but it seems like (downtown at least) everyone is a 20-something impossibly rich young professional living in tiny $1m - $1.5m condos, and hate everything but love to show off on social media. Perpetual big FOMO energy, too. All the artists, counter-culturists, etc have left the city. Even our famous gay neighbourhood “The Village” is shrinking and being replaced with unaffordable condo buildings. Montréal is still beautiful and full of lovely people but there can be a bit of friction if you refuse to even attempt to understand French (though that is rare) and people are slowly being pushed out by unaffordable housing there too. The only other city in Canada I’ve spent time in is Vancouver and if you’re not already independently wealthy it’s near impossible to survive in now, but it’s fucking beautiful.