Am I too Insensitive?

Well I would laugh if I saw you carry that sign. But then I laugh at lots of inappropriate things.

 

I think I might be interpreting this wrong.

Rather than worry about the homeless, your worried about how people who look at the homeless have to feel?

I'd say your priorities are wrong if that's the case.

 

I was not purposely homeless. I didn't choose to run out of money for food every two weeks. I did not enjoy feeling beneath you. I would have taken that sign as a homeless person to be cocky and very degrading. I was aware I had to bathe in public bathrooms, sleep in a broken into uhaul, get harassed by cops all day and get told "get a job!" by the public. Believe me they hear it from people with money WHOM have not been homeless due to failing in high school, caring for their terminal mother til death, beaten, molested, amd raped by their fathers/step fathers at home, sold into prostitution at home, came back as a vet and now has ptsd and no family, schizophrenic whom has no family and society has neglected, suffering from the physical disease addiction when our parents used or our exlovers used there are so many reasons and you wouldn't believe the stories I could tell you. And yes they all would love to have a home and be happy too. How about spending days among and as them and experience going through them and feeling to the lowest and highes they do but you still won't get it. End the end you'll still be some girl who has a home to go back to and no severe disability or one of those most tragicall sad lives? I'm not talking about the travelers that are homeless by choice. If you want flip off the man and everyone and hitchhike and explore across america gypsy style you have need to try and figure a way out to camp, eat, bath safely. No respect in begging from then unless it's an emergency for them...

 

Compassion is a positive thing, as long as it doesn't lead to further enabling someone's dysfunctions.

I wasn't purposely homeless either, and I am probably (well definitely) a hell of a lot stronger than the mentally ill and hardcore addicts. But, I didn't want any sympathy and would've died before I begged. That's the easy way. At the end of the day a person can only help themselves. And you can control your destiny. Blaming problems as the end all be all of any current situation does nothing but stagnate progress and rising above that situation.

Ps what part of Va are you from?

 

I'm in Va Beach, I will admit to very rarely begging. Food stamps at 120.00$ a month doesn't buy a lot of carryable nonperishable food to eat mine would normally last 3 weeks tops. I've been homeless by choice and of circumstance, so by circumstance I was lucky to be at the beach during dummer haha.. by choice I preferred the term traveler and was everywhere.