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A Place Along the Way

One girl writes:
I made it through high school some what scarred and bruised.
No longer a little girl I’m moving into a world filled with rules.
It’s right what they say that you have sunny days
it’s just you have to be able to make it through the rain.
I’m only eighteen, tryin’ to make it to that specific dream
where your that person you’ve always wanted to be.
It’s kind of hard when people doubt you sometimes
you just wish they knew or they had a clue
of what your going through.
It’s that time to prove any and everyone wrong
show them that your very strong.
Nobody said it would be easy
that’s what friends and family are for.
To help you get through
The miseries life sometimes has in store.
Ya’ll make mistakes just like I did
and still is that's what the wonder of life gives, and ya’ll learn
"Current resident"

Growing up in and out of foster homes it was hard to attach to anybody. I never belonged any where. I remember my 18th birthday was coming fast, I would mention it to the foster mom and she would just smile and tell me I better find a job. She would say that life was rough without a job. I didn't want a job I wanted to go to college. City College was my idea but where was I going to live? My foster father made no bones about it at 18 I was out. I saw him put others out so I knew he ment it.

My parents where still messing up, grandma was to old, my auntie said I was old enough to take care of myself, and I had only been in the last foster home about 7 months.

I'll never forget, I remember it like it was yesturday. ONE week after my 18th birthday I was told I had to leave. Where was I to go? What was I to do? I remember putting my things in my friend's moms garage and would sleep on the back porch at night. Shower when her mom wasn't home. Embarrased about life.
"Past resident"

Being homeless has its advantages and disadvantages. Most people believe that being homeless means living on the streets but you can live with friends and still be homeless. Being homeless is not having a place to call your own. Whether it is living with friends in a shelter or on the streets. When I was homeless I learnt a lot. Like, not everyone that is homeless is there because they don’t have anyone to stay with or a place to live. I meet this one guy that had his own house, wife and kid but yet he wanted to live on the streets because he didn’t want to deal with paying bills and the stresses of life.

Being homeless is the most frees thing in the world. You don’t have anyone to tell you what to do or were to go. You have different worry then normal people. Like, were is there next meal going to come from? Or were is there next high going to come from? A lot of people think that homeless people are drug addicts but the truth is that the most powerful reason for homeless people doing drugs is that it takes them away from reality.

How would you feel if you had no worldly positions and you were eating food that other people have left on the streets or that they have thrown away? When you are living in abandoned buildings and trying to stay warm you have to do something and since homeless people don’t have money to go out and buy a heater or a sweeter then we do drugs to take are minds off of the situation that we are in.

The life of a homeless person is much like the life of a person with a home in the way that we have rules that we obeyed by, they are different but they are rules. We have girlfriends, dogs, and people that we love etc… In all ways we are the same as people with homes but the only different is that we sleep on the streets or in abandoned buildings.

So in conclusion homeless people live normal lives for them. Not everyone has the same life style, in a since it is similar to the differences in the life style of a rich persons life style and a normal persons life style. As were a rich person do not have to worry about paying bills or paying for there kids football uniform and a normal person have to make sure that they have enough money in the bank. When you look at a homeless person you have to understand that they are people just like you and I, but some were in life they were dealt a bad hand, whether they chose it or it was chosen for them.

NO body knows it but me!
ANONYMOUS

Your tax deductable donation can help a child like this, that thinks
homelessness is a way of life.
Please give these children a chance, to become productive members of society.
Your donations go to blankets, food, shelter,
and basic necessities of life.
We thank you in advance for your donation.