Perspective

= Q:What do other people think of the topic? =

A:1.There just people like everyone else they are not aliens, I volunteered at a homeless shelter a while ago and I discovered most of them just had unfortunate things happen in there life, for example there was a mom and her son there at the shelter because their house burnt down. Read More:[]

2.I feel bad for homeless people. I live in a town with a considerable homeless population, so it's sometimes literally an in-your-face issue here.

Being homeless is annoying. I don't know what else to call it. Setting aside the enormous negative social stigma, the day-to-day life of a homeless person is a monumental pain-in-the-butt, logistics nightmare. Someone who's always had a place to live has no conception of how difficult life is when the basics most people take for granted are gone.

A homeless person has little money because he has an extremely hard time getting and holding a job. He generally can't shower every day. Living at a shelter is a temporary deal. Doing laundry is problematic because, after all, he can't drive to a laundromat without a car. He can't buy detergent or run the washers and dryers without money, anyway. Even if he had clean clothes, he can't iron them without an iron and a place to plug it in.

He has limited options for communicating with prospective employers. How many companies will hire someone without a residential address and no phone number? Sure, there are work-arounds, but they're light-years from optimal. And if he does get a job, he has no place to store his few possessions while he's at work.

But the biggest challenge to overcoming the above obstacles is that a homeless person never gets a good night's sleep or proper nutrition, so he always feels horrible. Solving the above-listed problems would be tough anyway, but imagine trying when you're too tired to care.

When I look at homeless people, I try to remember that underneath their shabby outward appearances, they're still people.

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3. I'm one of those people who don't feel bad for not giving my hard earned money away to strangers. I'm all for giving opportunities to people if I think they deserve it, so they can help THEMSELVES instead of being dependent on others constantly. I apply the old corny saying to this situation because I think it fits.  "Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day, but teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime."  That "teaching" part is what I'm all about, not having people wait around for handouts, just a hand up is all they need sometimes in my opinion.

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