Don't get so overwhelmed by the enormity of your situation that you fail to pay attention to the small ways that Life or God is trying to help you out.
Are you introspective? You may be seen as self-absorbed or narcissistic. This is frustrating because you're determined to understand the nature of humanity.
When a wild woman is stalking her wild hungers, it will take her down strange and unmarked paths. That scent of your yearning is all you have to go by.
Where is the “Sister, can ya spare a dime?” skid row of yore? That was another time. Now there are cities filled with... multiplying homeless enclaves.