Here lately it just feels like everything and everyone around me is crumbling. My mother is unable to buy groceries so that she can afford to pay her taxes before they take her house...my father is working 48 hours+ at a time to get as much overtime as possible to help me and my mother (my parents are divorced, but my father still helps financially-otherwise my mother be unable to pay the most basic bills). I've lost a relative a year for about the last decade...the lost goes on and on. I feel like my whole family is cursed sometimes. I know it's just the economy and the natural cycle of life, but damn, it seems a bit harsher than normal the last few years :( Maybe it's just how human society's current condition... just crumbling under it's own stress and strain.