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Framed. Surround so as to create a sharp or attractive image. Produce false evidence against someone so that they appear guilty.
Coasters! As requested by my sister, and an excuse to play with my gold paint.
An idea forming. Trying to define words with drawing.
Sketch 1: To indulge in an unrestrained way.
Title: Postponed Redirecting. Medium: Acrylic on canvas. Size: 24x30 in. Year: Winter 2009-Fall 2011.
Done. Why did this take 2 years? I don’t know. The amount of time painting wasn’t 2 years though, compress it all together it was less than 6 months if I had made myself paint 3ish hours a day. So far my father thinks the right side looks like Scooby Doo, my brother thinks the left looks like Mother Brain from Metroid, and I’m tired of looking at it.
submitted by siebenflammen
When I was 17, I chose to attend an affordable state school in a village close to home even though I had been accepted to 2 “Ivy’s” and many of my friend were attending prestigious Universities around the country. My parents, who worked blue collar jobs, could not provide much support for my education so I chose state school knowing that I would have to pay the debt in full. I worked two jobs through college to make ends meet and networked constantly my junior and senior year to try to find work after school. The Monday after graduating with my “useless” communications degree, I started as an intern in IT at a local college, making minimum wage doing work that was not related to major, but work nonetheless. After a year of showing up on time and doing my job, they hired me full time and I was awarded affordable health benefits and a retirement fund. Two years and no raises later, they offered to pay for my MBA through their program at the business school. In 2010, I bought my first car, a new toyota corolla with money that I’d saved for almost 5 years. In 2011, I bought my first house on my own after living on my own since college in a shared apartment — a $72K, 1 bedroom condo with mortgage payments that were affordable, even with my low income. Shortly after, I finished my MBA and I was promoted into a higher paying job that allowed me to make larger payments against my debt while continuing to live a modest life. I do not live with a great deal of luxury, but my life is the result of constant forethought and planning to secure comfortable means to live by. I do not not now, nor have I ever relied on anyone else to pay my way through life.
You have completely missed the point of all the people posting here who also behaved responsibly and lost everything they built anyway. A libertarian is just a progressive who has not yet learned that forces outside your control can completely derail your life.
THIS.
“I do not not now, nor have I ever relied on anyone else to pay my way through life.”
Really?! You’ve paid your own way your entire life? Were you raised by wolves in a cave? Your parents never fed you, clothed you, nor provided you with shelter? You never attended K-12 grade in a (public_ school? How did you get to said school? Did you walk on a (public) sidewalk, ride your bike in the (public) street, take the (public) school bus, or use public transportation? The street lights never lit your way home as you traveled home? There were no stop signs or crosswalks in your town? You’ve paid your own way your entire life? Really!??!
The OP is an asshole. It’s really great you are doing so well, but acknowledge the social structures that helped get you there.
http://www.globalissues.org/article/26/poverty-facts-and-stats
It is a luxury to live with clean water, indoor plumbing, and electricity, among other things. The majority of the western world lives with a great deal of luxury.
