Here are two types of people who are very often confuse for being the same one. The Homeless Millionaire or "HM" for now on, is the person who appears to be homeless when you meet them. (Go figuire... just wait.) They will have a poorly shaven face because the disposable razor they have used for the last 6 months is as dull as a 2x4. Lunch is always interesting as they bring oddities like pickled herring and homemade concoctions that nobody else bothers asking what it is. Don't ask! You don't want to know and if you do ask then you will have to change lunchrooms before you can enjoy your own food again. Clothing will be old and frayed, boots the same soles sometimes flapping and their hardhat is probably expired. Slightly hunched and fingers frail and wired. Slow walking and seem to shuffle along wherever they go. There is a layer of could be dirt or could just be age on them. The appearance of being slightly tarnished like an old piece of silver that has not been taken care of. A musty smell follows them and an air of mystery. So you may be wondering how are there two of these HM's? Well that is the part that is amazing!
You may have worked with the first type of HM for some time getting to know them and enjoying their conversation and general gentle persona before it happens. Then the odd chance you see it.... the pocket book. This is the one discerning thing that separates the 2 HM's. He will either deal with strictly large wads of cash due to lack of trust to financial institutions or a little cheque book where every penny since 1964 has been collected. This man is the real deal millionaire. Having saved and pinched every penny they have made since they started working he has amassed a pile of wealth that he sits on. Strangely thou this man blinded and will never see themselves as wealthy. He sadly will often take it to the grave with them, unable to see what they have accumulated. Only focusing on the constant increase they never get the satisfaction of hitting the finish line. The home life for this HM is simple a small house and a little fishing boat, usually a widower or has a wife with distant grown up children that he has pushed away due to working so hard their whole lives and putting family second. He truly lives to receive the pay statement and add the numbers to his impressive bankroll.
Now the second HM. Being so far from the first is it amazing that they both seem to personify the same character. Jagged and untrusting here is the one you keep at arms legnth. This is the man who could have been a millionaire but is just homeless or living in a low cost apartment with roommates at 50+ years old. The factors that have created this person are limited to usually three. 1. They are divorced 3 times and living with their girlfriend while they are happy to just be paying alimony now that the kids are all out of the ex's houses. 2. They have pickled themselves with alcohol over many years and spent the rest of it all on gambling. The position now is that they live cheque to cheque and have open credit accounts at their local pubs and liquor stores. 3. Crack. The horrible drug has grabbed onto them and its been years since they lost their homes and families to the addiction. Now just chasing jobs to fuel their ongoing dependency and sucking back the smoke from death itself every chance they get. This HM's all clouded by their surroundings they have created for themselves. They can only see the weekly pay cheque and have lost the desire to enjoy other parts of life. Their addictions or downfalls now wrapping their heads like a darkly shaded veil they cannot see past the end of their fingertips in life.
The oddness of the two Homeless Millionaires and the one similarity between them has led me to pair them with this animal. Being that they are so different but share the same trait of outer blindness as to their surroundings makes them the Bat. Unable to see, living in the dark and well there is that smell too them create this link between man and animal.
You may have worked with the first type of HM for some time getting to know them and enjoying their conversation and general gentle persona before it happens. Then the odd chance you see it.... the pocket book. This is the one discerning thing that separates the 2 HM's. He will either deal with strictly large wads of cash due to lack of trust to financial institutions or a little cheque book where every penny since 1964 has been collected. This man is the real deal millionaire. Having saved and pinched every penny they have made since they started working he has amassed a pile of wealth that he sits on. Strangely thou this man blinded and will never see themselves as wealthy. He sadly will often take it to the grave with them, unable to see what they have accumulated. Only focusing on the constant increase they never get the satisfaction of hitting the finish line. The home life for this HM is simple a small house and a little fishing boat, usually a widower or has a wife with distant grown up children that he has pushed away due to working so hard their whole lives and putting family second. He truly lives to receive the pay statement and add the numbers to his impressive bankroll.
Now the second HM. Being so far from the first is it amazing that they both seem to personify the same character. Jagged and untrusting here is the one you keep at arms legnth. This is the man who could have been a millionaire but is just homeless or living in a low cost apartment with roommates at 50+ years old. The factors that have created this person are limited to usually three. 1. They are divorced 3 times and living with their girlfriend while they are happy to just be paying alimony now that the kids are all out of the ex's houses. 2. They have pickled themselves with alcohol over many years and spent the rest of it all on gambling. The position now is that they live cheque to cheque and have open credit accounts at their local pubs and liquor stores. 3. Crack. The horrible drug has grabbed onto them and its been years since they lost their homes and families to the addiction. Now just chasing jobs to fuel their ongoing dependency and sucking back the smoke from death itself every chance they get. This HM's all clouded by their surroundings they have created for themselves. They can only see the weekly pay cheque and have lost the desire to enjoy other parts of life. Their addictions or downfalls now wrapping their heads like a darkly shaded veil they cannot see past the end of their fingertips in life.
The oddness of the two Homeless Millionaires and the one similarity between them has led me to pair them with this animal. Being that they are so different but share the same trait of outer blindness as to their surroundings makes them the Bat. Unable to see, living in the dark and well there is that smell too them create this link between man and animal.
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