In other words, what do I want to work on, moving forward?
Apply for a subsidy in renting a public house. (here be formidable bureaucratic dragons). c.f.: Mei Ying.
Toil away at a higher-salary job so that I can afford a more expensive house. (But why would I want a more expensive house, in the first place?). Become a piano-teacher, maybe? Or, a software-salesman? CRM, ERP?
I have spent a long time in suffering from the taints of the three poisons (which the Buddha has pointed out in the Dhamma):
lust, greed, desire, craving
hatred, aversion, ill-will, hostility
ignorance, folly and delusion.
Nevertheless, these older men – who have suffered, for an even longer time, from pain of some kind or another – were generous enough to appear in a photo together with me.