Being
crippled can be a tremendous gift for some people because, if you play your cards
right, it can give you an ironclad excuse for sitting on your ass and doing nothing. And that’s all
some people want out of life.
You
know the type of people I’m talking about. I’m talking about the slackers. I’m
talking about the stoner types, both literally and figuratively. They’d just as
soon lie around on the couch all day and watch TV and/or play video games and eat chips. Some people
love having an excuse for not doing anything because they’re terrified of
failing so if they don’t try to do anything they won’t fail at anything. So if
they have an excuse for not doing anything then they can feel content and
satisfied because they can tell themselves and others that they would’ve
succeeded at a lot of stuff if they could’ve but they couldn’t so it’s not
their fault.
And
if you’re crippled, you can use it as an excuse for not doing just about anything
if you want to. You can probably collect Social Security and not work. If you
hustle enough, you might even score a space in public housing for yourself with
super discount rent. Of course you won’t have much money left for anything else
but hell, who’s counting? Some things are more important than money, eh?
And it’s
not really accurate to say that cripples situated thusly do nothing. It takes effort to acquire such a lifestyle. Stuff like Social Security and public
housing don’t just falleth from the sky. You have to jump through the flaming
hoops of applying for them and then duke it out with the bureaucracies when
they initially turn you down. That can be a full time job. It’s a lot easier to
become a slacker cripple if you’re rich because you've already got stuff like money and housing. You can skip all the bull shit and go
directly to the slacker promised land. No lines, no waiting.
(Please support Smart Ass Cripple and help us carry on. Just click below to contribute.)