This Brexit, Trump, Hillary, Isis shit REALLY gets me down but then I remind myself … that I gotta friend

I gotta friend. She’s not had my life’s advantages. She moved out of her home at 16 because family life was just too hard. She waited tables, lived where she could and inevitably lived on her own, stayed in high school, moved on to college, got a degree and is now working 6 to 7 days a week to pay off her student loans (which she’ll have done soon enough). I’m guessing she didn’t have much (if any) government help, many scholarships, mother or father or ANY of the things that people say they need to make life “fair”. She’s just got up out of bed for 27 years (from wherever she was sleeping or not) and went to work or to school or to wherever to get herself to a better place. I tell her she is a “Superwoman”. She don’t think of herself as special (which is why I tell her that she is). She just does what she does and if you would ever meet her you would think that she is just another beautiful, warm, friendly and kind person who’s just like you and I. But she’s really not. All this to say is that while I’m sitting here watching what’s happening in Europe this morning, it’s really scary when I think of their politics, our politics, our continual mass shootings, everyone’s Isis and on and on and on, I get really down on where this world’s headed, then I always have to remind myself …that I gotta friend. She is what’s possible.