Word: homelessness
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...Shocking is only part of it. Awkward is more of the feeling that I get. I saw homeless people back home in Houston. I’d see them downtown, under freeways, and in other places. It wasn’t the same though. It wasn’t personal in those situations. I’d see people while driving and give them money sometimes, and at other times not give them money. I never really talked to them. It was always an interaction with some distant person that I’d probably never see again...
...experience at Harvard has been different. Over the past almost two years, I’ve come to recognize the homeless people in the square. Seeing the same people day in and day out has put a mark of familiarity on their faces. There’s even a certain level of informality with which I greet some of the ones that I notice more. There is a “Do you have any spare change?” followed by an “I’m sorry, brother, I don’t have any change...
...tired of people asking you for money and not doing the best with the money, but on other hand we don’t use our money in the best way either.” This statement represents another form of tension that arises in our interactions with homeless people...
...often quick to judge homeless people for their situation. But they are not all in that situation for the same reason. Some have mental issues, some have made poor economic decisions, some have drug addictions, and some have just had bad luck. Some have been knocked down by a society that at times has little sympathy for its poor. Just as they may have made mistakes, we have also stumbled off the narrow road at times as well...
...most of us haven’t done it by ourselves. We have had some type of support network. If it weren’t for people helping us when we messed up, we might not be where we are today. We have to look at homeless people not solely through their situation of living on the streets, but we must also look at them as individual people...