financial comparison, concatenation, and cookies

[flamingsword]

My relationship with people who have different levels of money and finance is being called into question by all this recent contact with people from my past. First Richard, who is still urban poor and satisfied with his life, turns up being as much himself as he ever was, only with new self-respect. He's still looking for something, but he knows that money isn't it. More recently, people I went to high school with have wandered back across my attention span. I know that some of them are bound to be wealthy; statistically it's improbable that people with the prep-focus mainstream background will be anything else. I'd like to know how happy they are, how fulfilled, but I don't know any of them like I know Richard, whose heart is there where I can see it, with few doors closed to me.

I'd like to get someone to open up to me who has a mainstream background, but how do I convince anyone that hasn't got that much in common with me that I'm no threat to them emotionally? Juliana and Terry were from wealthy families, but they were also Catholic school kids and therefore freaks. The Vestavia Hills part of my family are wealthy, but they're all closet-case alcoholics and I'm not sure where to put them on a bell curve. My statistical universe is way too limited to form any kind of recognizable patterns, and I want to know this. I want to have Jewish friends and rich friends in the crazy mix of people I know, and I'm doing that Hermione thing again where I think of people as information-carriers and not as people. Crap. Still, it'd be neat to have more financial variety in my current menagerie.

The baking faerie has returned. He says he's not a fairy, he's an imp, and that my mastery of addictive baked goods comes from the Powers of Hell. Aww. That's so sweet.
Cookies again, orange this time. Maybe almond cookies, too, if I want to bake two sets.

Comments

[tanniynim.livejournal.com]

I can be an information carrier for you, I don't mind. The key is seeing people as both a person AND something you can learn from/research on/examine.

I come from a rich conservative reconstructionist Christian (Church of Christ) family and have a B.S. in Psychology from Texas A&M. Ask for details if you want to fill in your statistics some more, it's fun- and arrogant bastards like me never mind talking about ourselves.

[flamingsword.livejournal.com]

But you're part of the counterculture and not the dominant culture. I want info on the people of the mainstream. I can't go there myself, so I'd need to find a regular person to go there, and you're not that regular. Comparative to gonner221 and I, maybe, but that's not saying much. And getting info on regular people through you is still secondhand. See the predicament?