In today's environment, I noticed the pressures society faces with limited resources, such as scarcity of food, transportation, and employment. In rural pockets of America, challenges can look very different from city life. In metropolitan regions, the resources are more abundant and more readily accessible. For instance, if you are in need of food reservoirs and you can not access them. They may provide transportation by using a wide range of transit systems for citizens to get the stockpile of goods. There seems to even be a surplus of vehicles or distinct modes of conveyance altogether, such as Uber, Lyft, or DoorDash, and they deliver these goods to individuals who have challenges catching a ride. The countryside of life faces a dissimilar reality. Transit systems do not have assigned locations to stop while en route, and their hours of operation are significantly different from metro life, where services are available all day. For citizens in these vicinities, getting food and everyday basic essentials and needs are met with their own hurdles, which can completely change the trajectory and alter the day.
Imagine living in a city where rendering services is a hit or miss. What I mean is, if you did not catch the bus at this stop, you can easily catch the next one and get what you need. In rural communities, it looks so much different; if you miss your bus, this can change the course of the day. The next bus to meet you at a designated stop differs by hours, if not the next business day; in the city, there are incremental time slots that are frequent. Citizens in pastoral regions have food banks that are far and few in number; they can only distribute so much to the crowd, and they can only serve the public on a month-to-month basis. To a person facing food depletion, they may feel as if they are only celebrating Thanksgiving. If you miss this, what are you left with? Why wait until Christmas, of course. Convenience stores are miles apart, and the prices are inconvenient; they are enough to make you squint, double take, and continue strolling through aisles while deciding if you need to use a five-finger discount. I say this part jokingly.
Employment is also a cause for concern. If you are a community member in a transient site and you are awake early enough, you can not help but notice a strong commute happening right before the double digits of the day. After this, it appears the world around you becomes stagnant. I often wonder what a headache this must be for the young people in the community. To know that jobs are distant, ranging in miles, and transportation is scarce. It is a haunting feeling. You may have the talent and the motivation, but you question the drive, right? I mean the drive, desire, and hunger to achieve more. It creates a lot of questions. How can people in these areas make a living? How can income be generated? How are these community members providing for their families, or how can it become obtainable? Has the rest of America forgotten about us? This is disheartening, frightening, and it is daunting. The local jobs in these areas can only hire so many people; the jobs are sometimes temporary, and additional people may be added to payroll during holiday seasons. How exactly do we manage daily life after this? Then there is the after-work commute; we get to witness suburban residents leaving work from nearby cities, traveling through our neighborhoods heading home. All the while, most of us miss an opportunity to complete a workday due to impeding railing, which includes the few jobs around us, the lack of transportation to neighboring cities to work, and familiarity of recess.