Personal Narrative: Step Outside

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Step Outside Kevin Tillman COMM/315 06/15/13 Aron Muse Step Outside In this week journey I chose to step outside my comfort zone. I went to a place where I was familiar with but never had to face head on. I talked to people that I have help but never had to really truly live their life style. It was a very diverse community they ranged from young to old; African American, Caucasian, Hispanic, Pilipino, and Asian; they also came from many different backgrounds and from across the United States. The journey that I went on was traveling the roads and spending the day on the world of a homeless person. My day begin on Saturday June 15, 2013 at 9am I met up with my young man by the name of Josh. Josh has been homeless for the last 2 years even…show more content…
I ran into a lot of Veterans that where once involved in war and when they got back their minds was just not right a lot had nightmares and started to developing mental break downs and felt like living in the streets was the safest place to get away from the world kind of like going into hiding. Also on the journey we visiting different shelters and place they could find some food. When visiting these places most was kept up as best they could but some was worst then sleeping outside. Bed bugs were a big issue food was not great most of the time it was sandwiches. But most of the homeless persons were appreciative and was thankful, but of those that was thankful they had some that felt like it wasn’t enough and complained. Some of which were not really trying to find anything to do better. By the end we finished were we started me and Josh sat down and talked and I asked him where he saw his self in the future. He stated that he wanted to be successful he just didn’t know how it was going to be done because of his past. He had dreams and goals that he wanted achieve but in his situation it made it a little more…show more content…
At one point in my life I was nearly there growing up with my mom we went through poverty but never was homeless. Looking back at that always drove me to do better experiencing first hand would never want myself or my family meaning kids to go through that situation. The experience made me very diversity conscious of the world around me and the struggle that many others have. So I started thinking of the phrase there is always someone worst off than you. My hopes are that Josh finds that one person that will be willing to accepting him not by what he is going through but by the person I have grown to know the hard worker, the person who is willing to help, and the person who just wants the succeed. Maybe just maybe one day that person will be me who give him or someone like him that opportunity to

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