The Homeless

I read an article from The Papyrus (Greenville College's student-run paper) yesterday. One of the articles was about the Shak-a-Thon. This event gives students a taste of a vagrant's life by fasting for 36 hours and sleeping outside for two full nights. Students built a community of cardboard box homes together on a field on campus. Students talked about how it was hard to think or function due to the cold conditions and lack of food for their brains. I just thought this was an interesting way to better understand the life of the homeless, even though it was only for two days. Sometimes I think about the homeless, maybe you even think about them sometimes. We feel sorry for them, sometimes we blame society, sometimes we blame them. So maybe we help them for a day or two. But when we go back to our daily routine they stay homeless and stay stuck on the streets. They have it rough everyday, every hour. When I go to bed tonight I'll be warm and comfortable. Some homeless guy is going to be freezing cold with no one around. That sucks.