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NOTE: 2021 06 11 14H02 EST Dear Geneviève, -
Dear Geneviève,
Written 2021-06-12
- still currently going on about "help" systems because I've had to deal with them again in the last few months... after many years having given up on them... Geneviève is a young social worker who isn't my intervenante (counsellor, I think in English), and she really wants to help, but...
Dear Geneviève,
You're a sweet person
And no doubt you have
Very kind-hearted
Intentions and hopes.
But dear one, don't
Take this the wrong
Way, I'm not new
To this whole process.
I've been bounced around
This system longer than you've
Been alive, and unfortunately,
I've acquired a baggage
When it comes to these
Services you work for.
My experiences have not
All been on the side of good,
So you'll have to forgive me
If I'm not as enthusiastic
As you are when it comes
To finding the correct help.
'Cause quite frankly,
I don't believe it exists.
Not for my situation, anyway.
I've been told many times
In most unkind fashions
That you don't even know
Are possible in your field.
It's an assumption, sure,
But you have to understand
The perspective I'm coming
From to be saying this: It's
Let me down badly very often.
So, my trust that anything
Has changed in this system
Since I long ago left it
Isn't all too strong right now.
And not to be mean,
There's also your approach
That has been questionable
In the last few weeks.
On a few occasions,
I felt like I wasn't part
Of your intervention at all.
Like you had a goal to achieve.
And whether the discussion
Was to be of benefit to me or not,
You insisted we would have it.
Like I hadn't said I don't need it.
Then there was your colleague
Who was obviously surprised
I wasn't preoccupied with the topic
Of what felt like it was her homework.
So she instead barged in asking
Personal questions as to what
Else could be preoccupying me then,
As if this was anything appropriate.
I mean, I'd never met this girl
Before that moment, and the both
Of you decided we'd talk
Whether I wanted to or not.
It was a mind-boggingly weird
Thing to be experiencing.
Made me wonder where your heads
Were at to not see this isn't done.
Especially for that moment's context:
By the door of the food bank centre
Waiting to go in in a few minutes.
It just didn't make any sense to me.
Sure, you are intervenantes,
But for goodness sake,
The fact alone isn't enough to assume
Everyone wants to talk to you.
Talking personal stuff with strangers
Is really not my thing. I'm surprised
My conditions you know about didn't
Clue you in on this obvious symptom.
It also surprised me that you two were
Surprised covid wasn't a preoccupation
For me in my life, at least not completely.
There are other more pressing things, like:
I'm going to the food bank? I'd say
That is a pretty good clue. Sometimes I get
The feeling 'helpers' are so disconnected
To the reality their clients are living.
And that day, you made me feel
So uncomfortable, so very awkward,
'Cause the two of you didn't listen
At all, and I felt forced to give answers,
When really, I'd just told you
I'm fine, I have no questions about it.
Your insistance really threw me off,
And I really don't like being rude.
The whole deal felt like it was for you.
It had nothing to do with helping me.
To have that feeling be felt again
Just plays on my doubts this is wise;
I mean, to get back into this system.
I'm having a hard time shaking off
The feeling that it's a regressive step
For me to even be contemplating.
So, I'm sorry if my recalcitrance
Bursts your bubble a little;
Just remember that your clients
Have experiences that come with them,
And some of them will never fit with
All of the criteria, or what you studied.
Real life isn't so cut and dry, and
Helping starts with understanding.
Never assume that the standards
I'm currently incapable of meeting
Are just a question of guidance
And time to get myself up there.
The idea that I don't know
My own situation, my own capabilities,
It's short-sighted and condescending.
I know that's not what you mean.
Anyhow, I hope you'll understand
I think you're a great person, it's clear
You want to make a difference.
Just, don't forget your client when you try.
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Current Mood: alright... but silly, don't mind me...
Current Mood: "Iris" - Goo Goo Dolls
NOTE: 2021 06 03 08H53 EST No F's in Rhyme -
No F's in Rhyme
Written 2021-06-03
- ooh, rhymes ... and super cheery, to boot... ;)
Kind of getting harder to find some fucks
'Cause this living business truly sucks
The belief that it has any deep meaning
Is a pure construct of the human being
Don't get me started on the idea of purpose
That is simply the most preposterous
How's this for a thought? It has no point
Not saying it in the hopes to disappoint
But we come from nothing
And we leave to nothing
And everything in between is just a delay
Filled with distractions on how to allay
The inevitable truth we're nothing special
And our existence has no tones of crucial
So yeah, my fucks have been diminishing
There is very little left in me to be wishing
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Current Mood: it's a wonder...
Current Music: "Haven Stay" - Takida
NOTE: 2012 09 30 23H44 EST Une affaire abasourdissante -
Une affaire abasourdissante (with translation)
Written 2021-06-02
- repost... "help" systems in place in our societies operate in ways that can hardly be qualified as helpful more often than not... I tried to convey how the experience has often left me feeling...
- ça s’explique mal mais…
La situation me semble aussi infiniment absurde que
si on avait placé des juges Olympiques sur le bord de l’eau
pour évaluer la grosseur des bulles et des éclaboussements
que le noyé produisait pendant sa noyade
et qu’on avait analysé chacune de ses tentatives
à se sortir de sa détresse en lui critiquant le fait
qu’elles s’étaient avérées fatalement infructueuses.
C’est à ce point-là incroyable.
(rough English translation)
An astounding case
- not easily explainable but…
The situation seems to me to be as infinitely absurd as
if they’d placed Olympic judges on the riverbank
to evaluate the size of the bubbles and the splashes
that the drowned guy was making while in the process of his drowning
and that they’d analyzed every one of his attempts
at getting himself out of his distress by criticizing him on the fact
that they'd revealed themselves to be fatally unsuccessful.
It’s to that extent incredible.
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Current Mood: momentary petulence to let it out and then we move on...
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NOTE: 2021 06 02 13H23 EST So Frustrated -
So Frustrated
Written 2021-06-02
- thanks for bearing with me... I'll come to terms with it...
It comes down to this
Spend a lifetime
Bogged down
By mental anguish
From those traumas
And one day
Finally start
To get out of it
Only, surprise,
It's your body's turn
To fall apart now
It just keeps getting
Better and better
Doesn't it...
I really try to stay
In a more positive
Frame of mind
But this is
Admittedly
A hard one
To swallow
I'll need a minute
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