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Cracked Egg
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Perception is a funny thing
#26977101 - 10/09/20 01:48 PM (3 years, 3 months ago) |
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You see a run down efficiency apartment with little to no furniture, a small amount of food, and a weathered old man.
I see a man that had everything, lost everything, lived on the streets for 10 years and then was given a chance. this efficiency is his palace. He is extremely proud and actually looks forward to his future.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/new-leaf-project-homeless-money-canada-charity-b889315.html%3famp
Don't get me wrong. I am not a bum huggin' activists that would kick my own kids to the street in order for this drunk addict a place to sleep. I would now allow him to sleep with my wife because his wife left him 15 years ago because he spent their life savings on heroin.
I actually quit giving homeless any sort of change years ago.
But... I did think the numbers were kind of cool.
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Jokeshopbeard
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Re: Perception is a funny thing [Re: Cracked Egg]
#26977125 - 10/09/20 02:12 PM (3 years, 3 months ago) |
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I'm always grateful to see new ways of addressing our issues of homelessness and extreme poverty. It's a huge issue in our society. I certainly like seeing this new program and its results - which only furthers my belief that if you give humans responsibility and trust - most will shoulder the faith they've been given maturely. In fact it's likely, IMO, that only those with severe mental health issues will lack the capacity to act with competency and conscientiousness in this situation.
I don't give money to people on the streets either, but I always share my love, compassion, time, and empathy with them. Always like to share a beer and a sandwhich too; have spent countless hours doing just that in my life!!
Perception is definitely a funny thing. The world looks very, very different depending on what angle you view it from.
-------------------- Let it be seen that you are nothing. And in knowing that you are nothing... there is nothing to lose, there is nothing to gain. What can happen to you? Something can happen to the body, but it will either heal or it won't. What's the big deal? Let life knock you to bits. Let life take you apart. Let life destroy you. It will only destroy what you are not. --Jac O'keeffe
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ReposadoXochipilli
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I just left a socal resort city after 14 years, the homeless issue is always about keeping them from scaring away tourists, the city i lived in at one point gave them all rolling luggage to try and get them to stop using shopping carts.
Its hard to not have empathy for people stuck outside a society that crushes people underfoot in a dog eat dog manner but also hard to not be used that way.
Just depressing knowing if life happened to fall apart after 2 or 3 weeks of being homeless you esky start looking like it and people treat you horribly like you deserve it.
Fuck so many people are homeless in California due to foreign housing investments and now air bnb type businesses. They literally gentrification the working class away.
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