"You had unshakeable confidence in the rightness of your judgment. Where did you get your assurance? You, too, had had parents who'd separated. You had left them at an early age, one after the other, and had lived alone those last years of the war, sharing your rations with your cat, Tabby. Finally, you'd left your native land behind to go and explore other worlds. How could an 'Austrian Jew', without a sou to his name, interest you?
I didn't understand. I didn't know what invisible bonds were being woven between us. You didn't like talking about your past. It was only slowly that I came to understand what kind of formative experience made us so close from the start.
[...] From the age of seven, you knew you couldn't trust any adult. Not your schoolmistress, who your godfather said was a cretin; not your parents, who took you hostage; not the local pastor, who, on one of his visits to your godfather, started ranting against the Jews.
You said to him: 'But Jesus was a Jew!'
'My dear child: he shot back, 'Jesus was the Son of God.'
You had no place of your own in the world of adults. It was sink or swim for you - you couldn't help but be strong because your whole world was so precarious. I've always felt your strength at the same time as your underlying fragility. I loved your fragility when you weren't afraid to let it show.
We were both children of precariousness and conflict. We were made to protect each other from both. We needed to create together, by being together, the place in the world that we'd originally been denied. But, for that, our love also had to be a pact for life."
--Andre Gorz, "Letter to D"
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On average, what is the total MONTHLY amount that you spend on dining out*?
*(This doesn't only count going out to restaurants, but also stuff like picking up fast food to bring home, getting a coffee on the way to work, getting a premade sandwich from a grocery store deli during lunch, buying a quick snack from a convenience store or food cart whilst walking somewhere, ordering a pizza or any other food to be delivered to your home, etc.)
*(If you often dine out in groups/as a household: calculate and divide the costs so that you get a Per Person average. This is for YOU individually, NOT the total household/group costs)
(I'm sure polls similar to this have been made before (very common topic), I just haven't personally seen one that I can remember, so, I was curious to do my own! I was discussing this with a group of people today and it was very interesting to see how widely the number varied between individuals. :0c )
(Reblog for bigger sample size if you can, and feel free to explain your answer in tags if there's anything extra to add!)
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