Performance Art – STRINGS
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- March 4, 2019
- Performance art
- 1 minutes read
![From 'rice & beans'... 💁🏽♀️ Haven't we all been here at one point or another? Thank you to @ocasio2018 for bringing it home all the time. The realities and struggles... Source: @ocasio2018
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I looked down at my grocery basket today and couldn’t help but feel a pang of guilt. I’m still paying my student loans, and while I try to make my own meals; I also quite often will resort to a frozen dinner or take out. These are luxuries I never had growing up, and as I looked down at my basket today, I couldn’t help but think of all the times as a child that I complained about eating rice & beans for what felt then like the 10,000th time. Rice and beans was our staple meal, and we ate it the vast majority of days. As a kid I eventually complained about it. I got tired of eating the same thing all the time, and I wanted to have the elaborate meals I saw children eating on TV.
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Now, being an adult with bills and having had to scrimp and calculate everything for years, I feel terrible about it. My parents were young and trying to raise two kids on a dime. Eating rice and beans every day is what allowed me to go on school trips and play soccer....[more at @ocasio2018 ]](http://scontent-sjc3-1.cdninstagram.com/vp/9b810f40935d2f0ce506a84fbf8fe710/5D7E784D/t51.2885-15/e35/s150x150/61323058_2383371111882461_5512009552936313809_n.jpg?_nc_ht=scontent-sjc3-1.cdninstagram.com)
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