Homelessness

            It’s hard for some people to think that some homeless people aren’t druggies or felons and are literally just struggling to survive and can’t afford to live in today’s world. Nowadays it’s hard to live within luxury, everyone is struggling. Around the world people are without homes and often looked down on and treated horribly whether it is verbal or physical. In my home we struggle to survive, my family has gone homeless twice.

            Before my mom, little brother and I went homeless, I thought all homeless people were worthless because they were all on drugs. Never would I have thought that my family would be homeless twice. It never crossed my mind that some of those homeless people really just lost their home because they couldn’t afford to have one. That’s how my family lost our home, we just couldn’t afford it. As for my opinion on homelessness, it didn’t change from them being worthless until my family went homeless the second time. The second time we went homeless then I started to change my opinion. Every Sunday we would go to a church that would feed us lunch/breakfast and many other homeless people would go too. That is when I realized not everyone on the streets is a bad person; some homeless people are just struggling like my family was.

            Being homeless really changed my outlook on life, before I would judge a book by its cover, now I think twice before judging. You never know what that person has gone through or went through or how they got in that situation. Some homeless people are people who can’t afford to live and it’s saddening. A lot of my opinions on life has changed from being homeless, I can literally say “You never know what you have until it’s gone.”