jackson thomas. 6m fin

On the front of the store, the words one man's trash is another man's treasure is tackily painted onto the window. It doesn't make sense to me to advertise a business as trash first, treasure second. It'd make more sense to sell it as treasure and then they find the trash within it, but, who am I to judge? We live adjacent to a pile of fucking shit and next to a junkyard. Of course anything we slap some tiny orange tag onto can be called treasure. It'll look nicer than it smells, so aesthetics alone must be the selling point there. But in the end it's all trash: the district, the smell, the look. In my parents' case, it's their entire lifestyle, which doesn't make it seem as valuable after ten years of dumpster diving with them. Not that it could be. It's shit. How good would it ever be?

For some reason, mom and dad decided it was smart to set up their store in some two-story mixed building. Bottom is the store, top is where we live. The smell wafts up, unfortunately. The space is't huge, but to expect luxury off of their business is a letdown. The entire district's a fuckin' letdown, dude. I share my room with my brother. He's cool, but he's turned to rotting his brain. He talks like he has a bunch of rocks in his mouth, holding his tongue down from any verbal enunciation. 

Behind the place is a colony of cats. Typically they're roaming in the junkyard, but I guess they've been 

- 18
- live in a two-story building, first floor is a pawn shop with random shit they find and try to patch up from the junkyard next to their home. second floor is where he lives with mom, dad and shares a room with his brother.
- hates that his district is literally shit but he's been stuck digging thru garbage for so long he doesn't care
- rather unmotivated in life because of the lackluster industry. if he won he'd make it a showcase to try and push for further industry reform. i can see him going political but doesn't feel the power/claim to do so