Government Cheese

I was talking to a friend of mine about how we grew up and she was talking about how she also grew up on welfare much like myself. It started to really bring some memories back. I remember as a kid we used to eat government cheese, peanut butter and other surplus government products that the government gives away to the poor. my mom had to live on something like $250 a month in the 80's with 4 kids. We lived on this farm that some how she was able to pay for by working selling goods at a flea market. Frankly i really do not know how she did it. But it had me thinking about the big buckets of government peanut butter and cheese we used to eat. it did not taste bad really. I mean it was really orange i remember but did not taste bad. I mean me my brother and sister were so poor that the best meal we had as a kid was going to a church for a free thank giving dinner for the poor. I mean we had nothing at all but old hand me down clothes a diet that mostly consist of rice and oat meal and yet we were pretty happy.

We worked our asses off but that just built character in my life and thought me that I can and will do anything i feel like doing. I mean when i think about it anything I have ever put my mind to doing I have done. its not been an issue of CAN I DO IT its more of I WILL DO IT. I think growing up so poor gave me this attitude that anything can be done because all my life things have only gotten better. I mean if i grew up in a middle class family and received everything i wanted then I do not think I would appreciate what I have as much. I mean now when i have a nice car or a nice place to live I think to myself WOW I am really thankful for this. But if you grow up with no running water no electricity, no refrigerator. I mean nothing at all but some clothes and a few toys and a bunch of trees then anything from that point is much better.

It kind of gives you a will of steel to do anything. I mean i think this can effect different people in different ways. I mean all of my family never really went to school that much. My older sister went to high school for one day of her life yet she is now a huge rep at a major computer company earning high six figures and drives a BMW today. She has worked hard for what she has but she made it all the way up to the top with just a GED. my little bro runs his own web business and my older bro runs a major theater in the DC area. We all worked hard but even with lack of schooling we all have wills of steel to do what ever it is we want to do.

Now that will of steel I am thankful for.

on an unrelated note i love this video this girl is talented