It is good that you are surrounded by competent and self-sufficient people who have probably also cultivated family and friend support networks of equally self-reliant people. However, dig around in any developed nation, I assume you are from one, and you will find a huge subculture of people who are absolutely crap and whose lives are choc-a-bloc with problems, the majority of which are easily solvable and yet these people and those around them with similarly chaotic blighted lives carry on screwing up day after day. Alcoholism and drug addiction are very common. A strong determination not to try anything which may improve their situation is mandatory. A constant litany of excuses comes from their mouths. Go to any town in the UK, where I am from, any small town of, say, 10,000 people, and I could find 20 people just like this guy. The difference here is that he chose to do it in Pak Kret sans the benefit system. But believe me they are out there in their tens of thousands everywhere in Europe.
