Topics: Empathy • Politics • Community
Community • Empathy • Common Ground
This is my heart about homelessness. I have personally been homeless nearly 10 different times in my life, and it’s not for the faint of heart. It’s a struggle everyday to figure out where to go to stay protected from the elements. I am blessed enough to have had my car and a job while being homeless, but most people are not that fortunate. Homelessness is a solvable problem that we first need compassion to begin solving. I think it could help humanize people. If you have a child, imagine your own child having no place to sleep at night, no place to feel safe, and no one willing to help.
People are not operating at their full potential if they are not able to meet their basic needs. A person’s worth should not be measure strictly by their productivity but by their potential to become all they were meant to be. To help people. Instead of focusing on the problem and blaming individuals for “being the problem”how about we start demanding that the government do its job in protecting and serving the people. Yes, this is a governmental issue because the government clearly protects only a certain type of people.
If you have never experienced homelessness in your lifetime, how can you truly understand what someone is going through while homeless?