It was July 2008, I had been living in rented rooms for 3 months now, and deciding if I shoud take the next flight home. I received email from my attorney at the time, and was told some form of concession was possible, in a payout time table. I was literally one foot away from completely never seeing my family again, never to have ever had chance to see all my friends again at least once more before I go (all of this, as the reader will find later, part of a manipulation started early on).
By this time, I knew when I got on that plane, I'm not going to be able to come back to Thailand as often as I wanted. By this time our apartment was more than just our own domicile while the contracts were being negotiated, but 3 months of living daily with a local girl who worked at the mall across the street. Our relationship started before we met each other in person online, and continued after I was back living in my parents' house, now that I was dead broke and had no income and had an enormous financial and legal weight on my shoulders.
But I bought the ticket. I decided, whatever fate, remained at home, that American Justice would come through on me, and that in the end, the guys who scammed me, the guys who took all our family and friends money, are the ones to blame and that money would come back. How naive a feeble human I am, I'll soon realize over a decade later when self realization slowly sets in permanently. (Back to today)...Only...I had no financial fall back of any kind to cushion the event so it compeletely wiped me out. Completely. This includes up to 110k USD in credit card debts (and more, which I'm sure will come up in later chapters).
First moment of unconsciousness
I woke up on the bathroom floor on my back, Tuesday the second week of June, noticing I had pulled the shower curtain down with me as I cushioned my fall. First thing I notice is all pain in the back of the neck, then a very sour upper back and neck in general. However, upon cursory checks of my head, I found I was lucky to not have fallen on my face or somewhere on my head first. It was a real first scare that I was working way too long hours and for too long.
Suddenly Unexpectedly
It was sudden, unexpected and instant overnight debit by a law firm representing the now CHARGE OFFs on my personal US credit report! However is it, that things turned out the way they did? What if they are also collecting from the recently deceased as a sneaky new con job in large metro areas? The LA Superior Court should have given one of its long time tax paying American Repubican patriots, a chance to explain their recent life and economic situations (from the first 2006 financial frauds by a trusted friend) to understand condolensences of what were the reasons and intensions into why no information at all of my life circumstances or what I was going through at the time, are recorded as other items are?
The moment I saw it
I still remember that day, it doesn't feel too long ago. Suddenly losing $13,800 that you had worked hard to save as a cushion and help my folks, was suddenly legally debited from my personal checking account! It wasn't too long ago, just about half a year back, when suddenly, right before I was going to send out everyone's payments out, the law firm with the judgment decided to check my personal bank checking records, and it was the day before I was going to Western Union our team for their previous month's efforts. They decided to collect that day from my personal checking account. Completely unsuspecting, I got up to find out I had $-700 in my personal account. At first, I figured it had to be a simple clerical mistake.
It had to be a mistake. But upon being forwarded to 2 other callers, the final caller told me I need to speak to an agent at some phone number. Turns as luck would have it, they hit my personal account at -$14,000, suddenly leaving me with a -$700 overage fee, executing their perfectly legal judgement lien on my personal bank accounts. I was lucky I had at lease no assets of any appreciable value, or those would have been legally liened on too. All without even a one paragraph explanation of things that happened, as it really happened) and panicking for what to do, how to get everyone paid, etc. The helpful teller tells me that I would need to speak to legal to handle this situation, so I thanked him for his confirmation and time.
An omen from Tenzin
"But of course, evil spirts don't just follow you around. Every authentic Shaman of every tradition will tell you this. They actually live and sleep with you, as though your consciousness is the same," shrugged Tenzin on a rare visit.
