I am on unemployment pension, with basic security, live modestly – that was the case before. Money has never played a big role for me. I don’t show any envy or anything like that to the outside world. But it often bothers me inside. It makes me very sad especially because of my dreams/goals and my age. Since I’m about to turn 40, I’ve never flown anywhere by plane in my life.
The dream is distant countries, such as among others. the USA.
But nobody knows anything about it.
Anyway, I have 2 friends. I still know one of them from my training. A very frugal guy who I sometimes invited to dinner. He spins every cent. He works from home, recently he’s also been shipping perfume, skin care etc as a kind of influencer (he has zero idea about it) and doesn’t have the necessary followers either, he’s only interested in making money. He also posts advertising every day via WhatsApp. He also does stocks etc.
Then I have a 60-year-old friend who has several properties. We communicate via email and we have already met twice. He listens to my problems, fears, etc. because I have no one to talk to. But he also distorts a lot of things that are then told differently. I know him from forums like this.
He also often told me about his financial… numbers… what he was buying with it… what other inheritances he got, etc., just such fantastic stories where others would shake their heads and themselves ask if that is even true. He once told me about an acquaintance who asked him for a loan of 10,000, where he then wrote that he had to spontaneously grin, which he then sent me as a photo of himself.
Then he talks about the huge sum of 10,000 that he supposedly received as compensation because he was ill, etc.
Now you would say break off contact, but I’ve often thought that way. only then would I have no one to talk to again.
I’m also considering whether I should go to the abw again. after being so disappointed there too. Because they simply left me hanging with my goals. Very often they promised to help me move to another city, but always ended up with the one where I currently live, where I would like to leave. They also left me hanging when I moved. would then switch to another one
My treatment for the illness will soon begin. Here, too, I heard from someone else (but I don’t talk to him anymore) that something like that was just costing me money unnecessarily and he often described me as a social parasite etc. because of my retirement. I was always too friendly to avoid contact.
Otherwise, the only social contact I have is my mother
