I never used to care about what birds were doing, They were around and I wasn’t especially concerned about what they were up to

By the time my mother was my age (early fifties) she and my father were living with me. They’d lost everything. We’d come from nothing, decades of just being above poverty and then we had about twenty years (barely,) of middle class life (which they only achieved cause they did back breaking work,) and then they were poor again cause they didn’t course correct and continue to live below their means.