2011 a glimpse into the future

[Brittainy Collins]

We all look for something to change with the upcoming New Year.  We dont necessarily know what that change will be but we all look to that new year as a chance to begin again, to refresh and let what ever was wrong, disapointments, hurts, failures all become but a distant memory.

 

Mine was no different, but at the same time with my epilepsy and other disorders I felt how can anything possibly come that would change what my life is now.  I admit I deal with a fear of leaving my apartment and socially interacting with people in RL.  I looked around my tiny studio apartment and felt a well of depression just weighing me down.  All I wanted to do was curl up and hide in my bed.  

 

That was when something happened to once again give me faith in the future and a small burst of hope blossomed within me causing me to once again smile.  I received a call from a apartment complex that I had applied to this past August.  They told me that they in fact did have a one bedroom apartment come available and I was next on the list.  I felt like breaking down and crying.  This small thing was in fact the best christmas gift I had been given in a very long time.  I know it may seem silly but to live in a one room apartment with thin walls that you can hear your neighbors fighting at any hour of the day it is a goddess send.  

 

So I promptly took down all the information I needed and began the process of gathering the paperwork they needed for Section 8.  Of course they wished for something signed by my doctor stating i was in fact disabled.  I was a big confused I mean first they ask for my SSI paperwork acknowledging my disabilty but this is not enough?  I just nodded and said no problem.  Then they tell me that they need the doctor to state i should have a companion pet if i wish to have a pet.  I was like huh?  I need a doctors note to have a cat.  I laughed at the ridiculousness of the request but said fine and went about gathering all the info.  Now I am just playing the waiting game as each day ticks by and i start to pack up this studio which feels little more then a closet!!

 

So here is to 2011!