SB Homelessness

December, 3, 2016

I’ve been homeless for a little while now and I can honestly say it’s very difficult. Everyone thinks that if you sit on the side of a road or in front of a restaurant, somebody will feel bad and give you some money, No. A lot of people walk right past you and they just act like you aren’t there. Even sometimes they will pull their kids a little bit closer because there first thought is i’m going to try and steel their child. I’m a child too, a lot of the kids are the same age as me and almost the exact same as me in general, A 13 year old girl. The only difference is the other kids have a home to go too and lots of food and water to keep them well. I’m scared,hungry and I just wish that my life was different.

It’s been around 4 months since I’ve had a good meal, I am starving,dirty and I have no where to go when it gets cold outside. Put it this way, You are outside playing in the snow and you get cold. So you go inside and you put on some nice,warm and comphy clean clothes and your mom makes you some nice hot chocolate and you sit inside and enjoy it in the warmth. Well my life might just be the complete opposite. I have no coat or boots or a hat and no gloves. I’m cold all of the time and I have no mom to make me some hot chocolate.

My mom passed away around 5 months ago and I became homeless around 4 months ago. One day I was living in a beautiful home with both my mom and dad, My life was great. Then out of no where my mom had a heart attack while cleaning the kitchen. We rushed to the hospital, but it was too late. Alot of our money went to hospital bills and trying to save my mom but she passed away anyways. We had no clue what to do with ourselves.

We stayed inside for about a week then I cracked and my dad had a mental breakdown, I think you can guess what happend next. It happend so fast I couldn’t even actually process it. It’s like I blinked and then I was sitting in front of a restaurant asking for money just so I could have a decent meal. This is my life and I sure wish it wasn’t.

I think that the government could help the homeless by actually taking some time to think about how expensive everything is and if you have even one thing happen, it costs alot. If the governement knew how many people were homeless because of a loss of a family member or just how expensive things can be, I feel like there would be maybe a homeless shelter that you can stay in until you can get back up on your feet and start making changes. This shelter could be a temporary shelter for homeless people. You can’t stay there like it’s your own home, but you can stay there just to re-group and have a shelter.

Being homeless isn’t like they show in movies or TV shows. It’s completely different, but no one understands. If I could take away homelessness forever and I could make a change for the world, I would take that chance in less than a second. Till next time.

Skyllar. B