Homeless Person Essay

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A Day in the Life of a Homeless person Sleeping on the streets everyday under a tree or on the cold streets, nowhere to go, is a terrible way to alive. But one of the biggest tragedies of not having a home is that the homeless are treated like outcasts, as if they are no longer human being. But I was a human back then, maybe not a clean one. I knew that I did not smell because I had put on some deodorant I found it on the street and brushed my teeth. I admit that my hair was wild and knotted, because I used my finger to brush it, and there was a lot of holes and stains on my clothes. Every day out there, I had to struggle just to find something as simple as food, and if I didn’t find, I eat from the trash cans. That time there was a lot of fights in the location of the trash, you know, with other homeless people, They are just like me, they walk around all day long, thinking how to survive just one day. Sitting in the streets begging for money, while the people passing by looking at you like you is some sort of an animal. But I didn’t hope that a passerby would offer me a hand, that would be a waste of my valuable time. Instead I tried to pass my time with go into the library reading book, that didn’t always go good , I got kicked a few times. I was begging in the park after getting kicked out of the library, a old lady gave me 5 dollars, that’s a lot money for me, I promised myself that if I see that old lady I will thank her. 5 dollars that was enough for getting some food. I was standing, waiting for the lady to hand me my food, I remember what the food was a soda and a little container with vanilie pudding, the lady stared at me and I felt ashamed, embarrassed, then I remembered what a very good friend said to me; ‘’no matter what you are facing, don’t give up, always know that you are worth something’’. The feeling of shame

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