And now it’s my 20th birthday

Happy bday!

happy birthday ~

1998-2018

I turned 10 when the Great Recession happened

o:

So you never even got to see the market in good shape.

I mean it was bad before that.

So all of my politics have been formed from its bloody horrible aftermath

I was born in 1986 so I never got to USE a good market, but I did see what it looked like.

made our preteen years worse than it had to, right Austin?

I was actually not affected by it

My dad has a government job

You're not old enough to be truly wracked by what all this really is.

But I had my own personal depression though

My mom died around the time I was 12 or 13

: (

Was it spiders.

Cancer

. . . and here I was just about to send you're lucky

I am so sorry. That's horrible

I was spared the physical torment only to be wracked with mental torment

Lucky me

And I became politically conscious around 2014 ish

And then 2015 came along

Oooohhhh boy was that fun

To say I started on the right was an understatement

What kind of cancer

If you don't mind me asking

2017 was not fun for me.

It spread to so many places I forget

I was in DC during the inauguration.

It reached the spine, stomach, liver, spine, ribs to name the obvious

OOF.

Oops I repeated one

I was in DC as well for the 2012 inauguration

I took off work and stayed home

I was in DC this year to see family

That sucks dude. Life hit you hard, but death is inevitable. If not now, later. But it sounds like you figured some shit out and I hope you are better for it. @Austin

I mean with the migrant crisis and terrorist attacks I became very reactionary

Understandable