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So I've been unemployed since the end of June, and I'm trying to find a place to live, even though I have no income right now. And once I've applied for my unemployment benefits, I know that won't be enough. I just can't take the risk of signing into a lease with an apartment on the chance that I'd find my next job within a month or two.
The options I've thought of are these:
1. moving into my mother's in a rural town of 300 close-minded and narrow minded people, and living 90 minutes away from most of my good, long-time friends
2. moving into a monastery, preferably the less traditional kind of monastic community where celibacy is not required for lay residency
3. moving into a homeless shelter (this is just a crazy idea that came to mind)
There is no friend of mine that is able to, or would be willing to take me in temporarily (as far as I know anyway).
For some crazy reason, I'm thinking of considering moving into a monastic community before I would think of moving in with my mother. My immediate family is fully accepting of me as a gay man, but my concern is how safe I will be in the town's environment outside my home. And of course, my social life will be much more limited; I'd have to do quite a bit of traveling to spend time with my friends.
One of my sisters, when she found out about my most recent thoughts of suicide, recently mailed me a check of six thousand dollars. I put 95 percent of it into my savings, and the rest into my checking account. I plan to use it wisely, and only transfer money out, as I need it.
I think I will have to scratch my plans to pursue a Library Science degree. I found out I'm not getting the library assistantship, which would have waived most of my tuition. I don't like the idea of almost doubling my current student loan debt, by taking more student loans out to cover the remaining year and half I have left in the program.
If any of you have personal experience or insight in living in a less traditional monastic community, I'd be interested in hearing what you have to say.
I also need to find some community service (wherever I move to) where I can have access to continued counseling after July, and to see a psychiatrist as I have no insurance now. It's important that I continue my counseling, and keep getting refills for my two prescriptions.
The options I've thought of are these:
1. moving into my mother's in a rural town of 300 close-minded and narrow minded people, and living 90 minutes away from most of my good, long-time friends
2. moving into a monastery, preferably the less traditional kind of monastic community where celibacy is not required for lay residency
3. moving into a homeless shelter (this is just a crazy idea that came to mind)
There is no friend of mine that is able to, or would be willing to take me in temporarily (as far as I know anyway).
For some crazy reason, I'm thinking of considering moving into a monastic community before I would think of moving in with my mother. My immediate family is fully accepting of me as a gay man, but my concern is how safe I will be in the town's environment outside my home. And of course, my social life will be much more limited; I'd have to do quite a bit of traveling to spend time with my friends.
One of my sisters, when she found out about my most recent thoughts of suicide, recently mailed me a check of six thousand dollars. I put 95 percent of it into my savings, and the rest into my checking account. I plan to use it wisely, and only transfer money out, as I need it.
I think I will have to scratch my plans to pursue a Library Science degree. I found out I'm not getting the library assistantship, which would have waived most of my tuition. I don't like the idea of almost doubling my current student loan debt, by taking more student loans out to cover the remaining year and half I have left in the program.
If any of you have personal experience or insight in living in a less traditional monastic community, I'd be interested in hearing what you have to say.
I also need to find some community service (wherever I move to) where I can have access to continued counseling after July, and to see a psychiatrist as I have no insurance now. It's important that I continue my counseling, and keep getting refills for my two prescriptions.
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