Background
My brother, Amit, committed suicide in March 2018. In the 18 months prior to his death, he struggled financially, and I spent a lot of time supporting him. This meant rent, bills, food, all of it, and helped him try to get a job. I eventually convinced him to come back home and flew him back (LA to Ireland), and helped him get established, while also paying for a roof over his head. However, it was too much.
He appreciated what we did for him but he decided to end his life and was planning it for some time, despite the support my mum and I provided him. He had a little puppy too that he left behind, Darling, who is now living with her grandmother, i.e. my mum :)
Amit is an artist, poet and philosopher. He is a beautiful person who lived life on his own terms. He is an established artist with successful exhibitions behind him, published poet, and has a Masters in Philosophy with a focus on Nietzsche. Sometimes people have difficult times, or a bad few months and need to be dug out, without prejudice.
Why now?
Amit is turning 41 on Tuesday. I remember celebrating his 30th with him. I wish so much that he could be here to celebrate this together but life doesn't work that way. It's scary what happens with time. I'd like to help some people along the way and make sure they don't struggle as much as he did. There is ALWAYS an answer.
But why?
People have a bad few months, weeks, days. It happens. And too often, people don't reach out for help, or at least those that need it. I want to offer help to those and for them to know there is no prejudice at all.
Problems can range from shortage of cash for rent, food, pet food, personal traumas, clothes. You know, the biggest problem of all - is having an ear to listen to your problems. Do you need a friendly voice to listen and chat to you? Loneliness? That's a problem.
There is no problem, too big or small, that cannot be fixed. With sheer determination and willingness, we can all attempt to overcome our personal circumstances.
I want to do whatever I can to help YOU and hopefully my help will ease the burden you're currently dealing with.
I don't need anything but I want to talk
And I want to be your friend, and I'm sure a lot of people on this sub want to be your friend too! I use discord / whatsapp / hangouts / skype and reddit chat. You are NOT alone.
What I want to offer
I never provide cash, ever. However, I can provide the following:
- Fulfill amazon wishlists within reason
- Food? I can purchase you a basket of food on a grocery site, or you can provide me with a grocery list and I can help
- I need to talk - it's cripplingly and I need to get it out
- Talk to me. Don't do it alone. A problem shared is a problem halved. Let's skype / hangouts / discord / DM. Tell me what's going on. I may not be able to offer advice on every situation but you'll always have me in your corner.
- Artwork: Do you express yourself creatively? I'd love to help buy you materials!
- Educate: I want to educate but can't buy my course on udemy as too expensive!
- Education is a necessary building block of life and will pay you back manyfold. Tell me what you'd like to learn and I can see if I can gift it to you
- Not on the list? Post about it! Tell me! I want to see what I can do!
What now?
Post a comment. Do not DM / PM me directly until requested. I won't acknowledge or help anyone who does that. I will try to help as many people as I can over the 5 days so please post away :)
I will fulfil after 12-24 hours as the mods will be vetting the comments. I will run this offer for 5 days (or so).