LB Homelessness

Homeless Blog Post.     Liam B.  Thursday, Dec 1, 2016

My life is RUINED! Let me Explain, a couple months ago my mom got very sick and eventually the hospital bills became too much to keep up with, everyday I was Hungry because i had no money for food, and every day my mom's condition got even worse, her health diminished every day, and one day she passed away due to a heart attack causing loss of brain function, it became hard to live without my mom, but i pushed through it, until the bank came and evicted me,that is. Like “that” my life was gone, no food, clean water, bed, and worst of all no family to take me in, I now live on the streets, sleeping under old tarps and on broken uncomfortable benches. Nights are cold, and winter is like Death, Frostbite is so common in homelessness, the rate of death is higher because of hypothermia, summer on the other hand is by far the best part of the year, so many people outside to draw away attention so you won't be judge, and even more to give you a little bit of spare change for some food.

Being Homeless is like being a caveman, hear me out.. Caveman hunted for any and all food they could get, just like me, minus the killing, as well as the fact that we have no clothing that's clean, or anything to wash those clothes with, let alone wash ourselves, similar to how cave men only wore small amounts of clothing and likely didn't bathe often either, and yes i know we don't know exactly how they live, but we know enough to base things like that off of it, though it might sound stereotypical.

But i think the you could change the lives of us homeless, we could provide them with more than just soup kitchens, and spare change you found in your back pocket, give them some clean clothes, and a place to bathe, sleep, eat, so they could look like normal people, and with that go get jobs without being disconsidered because they are homeless. This could get them out of the loop! We can help all Homeless, including myself, we need to change our mindset, the government has more than enough to help pay the water bills for their showers, and money for clothes, the clothes do not have to be top of the line, buy them from Salvation Army or Value Village, it may sound like i'm proposing a lot, but it truly is not, it’s less than we deserve with the way the world has treated and cheated us time and time again.

Thanks for reading my post!

-Liam