Wanna here something really strange?

[BlueIris]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=4705228&mesg_id=4705228

The above thread in LBN (about Santa Barbara seeking to prevent the homeless from begging) made me realize something I've sort of been noticing these last two years but didn't recognize before now.

Almost no one asks me for spare change anymore. Or cigarettes, (not that I'd have them) or the time. No one stops me on the street asking for help these days. People used to do it all the time up until about 2008.

It's not that my city doesn't have homeless people, drug/alcohol abusers, and prostitutes. The city has been remarkably ineffective at removing them by force as they do in other communities. So, what is it?

I know I don't look different. I don't really dress any "better" than I have in the past, if anything my look is more casual than ever before, and sadly, I haven't changed any of my shopping habits or schedules so the same people who were asking me for money once should still have the same opportunities to do it.

We talk a lot in this forum about the law of attraction and how shifts in our energy can bring (or eliminate) certain things from our lives. Um...did I adjust my energy to reject beggars and solicitors? On the one hand, it would be a relief, as, for the most part, I have nothing to give them, but on the other hand, it would make me feel not so great about myself.

[BlueIris]

1. Good *Lord.*

I can no longer spell. It feels like I'm still in the grip of Mercury Retrograde, people. Not fair!

[kimmerspixelated]

2. I know what you mean...

I have found that so many things have fallen by the wayside...people events, habits, businesses you always thought would be there, and now there's some new shop moving in ..that kind of thing...astonishing losses on every level possible, and I have noticed a strange silence, noticed today AGAIN. Just wintertime?? Maybe.. maybe not..I think we are all more aware of everything...that's for sure...I know I am different than before...and energies effect everything and everyone...we are also all more sensitive here on this forum, which I find a remarkable plus...I used to see it as a hindrance, but I am who I am because of my sensitivities. Oh, whew! :toast: