This question haunts my thoughts as I sit on my extra soft hotel bed in Stamford, Connecticut. All I can think about are the hundreds of people that I have spoken to over the last year who are still suffering in their homes on the East Coast.
As a Native Californian, coming from over 3,000 miles away, I feel somewhat disconnected from the “true reality” of my East Coast friends. It’s easy for this to happen as I am engaged twenty four hours a day, seven days a week in the foreclosure prevention world.
These same thoughts and feelings consumed me this past July at the massive NACA event held in the same Washington D.C. hotel where Martin Luther King Jr. stayed during his famous “I have a dream” speech.
Now all of the emails, calls and pleas for help from the great people on the East Coast are rushing through my restless mind again. It’s as if each word I have received via email or story told on the Loan Safe forum over the last two years has come to life.
These emails for help vary from electronic messages to real cries and tears of real human beings trying to live real lives. It doesn’t get ANY more real than that!
Perhaps, if it hasn’t been invented yet, a new area of psychological study should be established and heavily researched. If it hasn’t been invented already, I’ll coin it, “The Psychology of the Internet and the Human Mind.”
Actually, I really think that someone up above is telling me, “Moe, you need this trip man. You need to get way from your business, get away from your family and see the people dude. Look in their eyes and help them have HOPE!”
The East Coast chilly air reminds me of my good friend, Thomas Finn, a retired New York Detective who I met online over a year ago. Mr. Finn has been battling Chase for a year now with one road block after another. He still has had no success to date.
However, he looks at life through a glass that is half full and calls it filled to the rim because he still has his health, family and a roof (for now) over his head.
His emails and pleas for help ring in my ears and bring tears to my eyes. My heart aches for this man and, at the same time, I feel a pang of shame because we are letting a retired Public Service Officer and GREAT human being SUFFER!
Imagine how many more Tom Homeowners are out there?
It brings me back to the question, “How many more Americans must we let suffer?”
Tom’s a great guy with a special needs family that he cares for. I try to help him when I can and we correspond via email here and there. Out of gratitude, he sent me a NYPD shirt. It’s my favorite shirt by far, even though I’ll never wear it. It has too much meaning to me to just wear on my back.
This shirt is more than just a shirt. It’s a sign of love and suffering from Tom Homeowner.
I want to pass to my kids the true story of “Paying it Forward.”
Many people in the foreclosure prevention industry who are truly good human beings know of someone like Thomas Finn and their hearts hurt for them. Many of us have hundreds of Tom Homeowners we carry around in our nightmares.
These people can relate to the hurt and the helpless feeling that I explained above. What I have learned is that these people who are suffering with smiles on their faces can teach us ALL how to live right and be thankful for everything we have!
Thanks Thomas for being my friend and sending that NYPD shirt to me. It means more to me than you can ever imagine. Also, I would like to thank God for showing me that doing what’s right feels so good. Even when you can’t help everyone you touch!
Maybe, if this is touching your heart right now, you can get in the car this weekend and you could come visit us in Stamford, Connecticut. Come unite with us this weekend to help you, to help those that will follow you and in the name of doing what’s right. United we are strong, as one we are weak.
Bruce Marks, NACA, Moe Bedard, LoanSafe and these blogs are as real as they get and WE WILL DO EVERYTHING IN OUR POWER TO HELP YOU SAVE THE DREAM!
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