^I can relate to the whole unable to find work on account of a felony I got years ago during the epitomeh of my going full retard with drugs.... Makes me horribly depressed to think about not having steady income and just relying on my social network
* / friends and friends of friends, for finding random ways of making money (
*NOT FACEBOOK OR ANY OF THAT BULLSHIT I MEAN FACE TO FACE RELATIONSHIPS)
Oh and I wanted to add, for those of you who are like me and who's living arrangements don't allow them the space needed for a happy service canine, but still want that feeling of something that to quote johnny cash and trent reznor, "everyone I know, goes away, in the end..." well, if you can't get pets, get PLANTS. Gardening passes a shitload of time and takes your mind off of things, giving you like, a brief sensation that you're in a rowboat in the middle of a monsoon in the Indian Ocean, but the storm stops for a while.
And depending on what you're cultivating, your level of interest and motivation in such a task may bring you senses of accomplishment and rewards of fruition one day from something you helped grow from when what was once a seed or seedling, becomes a fully mature plant, there are tons of plants that are really easy or eventually gets easier as you get wiser and learn new things, plants are just fun to cultivate and not illegal, and there are studies that show plant interaction helps for depression, and that getting more sunshine (and if you're a bit of a tweaker like me even when though you don't tweak on crystal anymore) moonshine

if you spend long hours into the nights taking care of my plants in an almost, quasi-paternal way, but more like just they're friends who are noninvasive but are on your property all of the time hahahaha. But there are also research studies that have been performed out there that show talking to your plants or even playing music helps them so long as you maintain positive and beneficial thought processes.