Thrown Away

Jason has spent many hard years on the streets as a homeless man, which has aged him considerably while he clings to the thin strands of his sanity. He can't remember the last time he spent a holiday at someone's house or had dinner with family and loved ones. He's not bitter about life dealing him a bad hand. He just wants to be left alone. Then the police arrive at his homeless camp one day and tear open a wound in his soul. Jason plots to fight back and even the score. I was born in a small town in Michigan, filled with the noises of factories. While growing up, I witnessed factory closures, which brought high unemployment and few economic prospects. I left the town to pursue my dreams and enrolled in a university. My education opened the door to the world, where I graduated with a Ph.D. in environmental and natural resource economics from Texas A&M University. With my degree, I traveled and lived in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Republic of Kazakhstan, Morocco, Malaysia, and the United States. Currently, I teach economics and finance at a small university in Morocco. Despite my humble beginnings as a poor boy from Michigan, I am doing alright. I am living life to the fullest.