My dad has been pretty sick, so we've been all over Chicago and some other big cities lately at rehabs/hospitals, etc. We see so many homeless.
Someone (usually my Grandmother or a family friend) hangs with my Dad during the day. And then after work I drive my mom up. So we make something to eat on the way up (sometimes it takes an hour or so to get there, depending on traffic.) My mom always helps me and makes a few extra sandwiches or a few extra baggies of something and we hand them out to homeless at the stoplights. I always wonder how everyone can just pretend they aren't there. It makes no sense to me! Ignorance is not always bliss. It is sometimes just ignorance.
We were at the gay pride parade on Sunday, and I gave a homeless man $5 and my friends were SO irritated at me. But seriously it was $5. He was clearly not pretending to be homeless. Trust me. And so I don't buy a pack of smokes to smoke at the parade, or I don't buy a few beers when we go out afterwards...I fed someone. And I feel blessed to have $5 to give away. I remember when I didn't. If everyone just took care of our people, I don't think we'd have this issue. You know?
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Someone (usually my Grandmother or a family friend) hangs with my Dad during the day. And then after work I drive my mom up. So we make something to eat on the way up (sometimes it takes an hour or so to get there, depending on traffic.) My mom always helps me and makes a few extra sandwiches or a few extra baggies of something and we hand them out to homeless at the stoplights. I always wonder how everyone can just pretend they aren't there. It makes no sense to me! Ignorance is not always bliss. It is sometimes just ignorance.
We were at the gay pride parade on Sunday, and I gave a homeless man $5 and my friends were SO irritated at me. But seriously it was $5. He was clearly not pretending to be homeless. Trust me. And so I don't buy a pack of smokes to smoke at the parade, or I don't buy a few beers when we go out afterwards...I fed someone. And I feel blessed to have $5 to give away. I remember when I didn't. If everyone just took care of our people, I don't think we'd have this issue. You know?
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