"When a poor person dies of hunger, it has not happened because God did not take care of him or her. It has happened because neither you nor I wanted to give that person what he or she needed"
- Mother Teresa
....we all need LOVE....
When somebody ends up on the street it is not because they are hopeless. In most cases it is because of circumstances that have brought on the misery. Circumstances like losing your job and being without work for a sustained period, particularly in an economic environment unfavourable when it comes to getting another job. Of course no job means no income. If you have no income and plenty of commitments, like kids, you are in biiiiiig trouble. Funny thing is that most people in today's society are only a few pay packets away from disaster. And when you are finally unable to pay the mortgage or the rent the street is a very probable outcome.
I don't take drugs and hardly ever drink alcohol but I have seen the destruction that addictions have on people. I live with them and their stories. If you talk to them they want to quit. Many of them have had stints in rehab. Many of them come from loving and supportive families. But it takes a lot of guts and love and determination to quit. But that's not the hard bit. Staying off them is the hard bit. It is basically a medical condition. Their body craves the drug. The addict will count the number of days till their next pension. It gets so bad that they will be broke two days after hitting up. Those addicts are addicts for a reason. Something has happened to make them that way. They are human beings, just like you and me. They have stories. They can make me cry. And I do, particularly when they become friends..... and then overdose. It hurts. Bad.
I don't take drugs and hardly ever drink alcohol but I have seen the destruction that addictions have on people. I live with them and their stories. If you talk to them they want to quit. Many of them have had stints in rehab. Many of them come from loving and supportive families. But it takes a lot of guts and love and determination to quit. But that's not the hard bit. Staying off them is the hard bit. It is basically a medical condition. Their body craves the drug. The addict will count the number of days till their next pension. It gets so bad that they will be broke two days after hitting up. Those addicts are addicts for a reason. Something has happened to make them that way. They are human beings, just like you and me. They have stories. They can make me cry. And I do, particularly when they become friends..... and then overdose. It hurts. Bad.
....it hasn't happened to you....YET!
Schizophrenia is a terrible illness. A medical condition. It plays with your head. it tells you lies and makes you do things that you don't mean to do. Then there's Asperger syndrome and OCD. And Dementia. And a million other mental illnesses. Many are born with the illness. Many acquire it through a difficult childhood. You know where they are? Out on the same streets as the druggies, and the alcos, and the other psycho's in space.
Yep, you want a bit of variation on street culture. Come spend a year with me. I'll show you pain and suffering. I'll show you self-pity. I'll show you anger causing violence. I'll show you grief and despair. I'll show you devastation, remorse, anxiety, panic attacks. I'll show you the lonely. And the loneliness. And the NEGATIVITY. I'll show you LOSS. I'll show you death. And suicide.
You see, that's the place I call HOME....
And you know what dot? It's my gift from God. He wanted to show me. To become one with all of these people. Because THEY are YOU and ME. And because he gave me skills to show me how to tell all the others. Believe me.
I'm going to..........
Yep, you want a bit of variation on street culture. Come spend a year with me. I'll show you pain and suffering. I'll show you self-pity. I'll show you anger causing violence. I'll show you grief and despair. I'll show you devastation, remorse, anxiety, panic attacks. I'll show you the lonely. And the loneliness. And the NEGATIVITY. I'll show you LOSS. I'll show you death. And suicide.
You see, that's the place I call HOME....
And you know what dot? It's my gift from God. He wanted to show me. To become one with all of these people. Because THEY are YOU and ME. And because he gave me skills to show me how to tell all the others. Believe me.
I'm going to..........
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