Oct 13, 2017
"Some people say it's easy," mused my dad... "Easier to steal than work; easier to lie, to get away with it. Sometimes they're right. Sometimes--too much--the system just isn't geared for the ones who have nothing better. The dropouts and the addicts; the ones with nowhere to go. Sometimes it's easier to cheat, because life is hard. But you gotta have your mates and your family and people around you who love you and give a damn. You gotta have hope, big hopes for the future, ideas about what you want, because of you got all of that, then living becomes easier--not easy, just a bit easier--and you can see that cheating is desperate, and desperate is hard."
The Sudden Appearance of Hope, Claire North
