Opinion: why there are so many homeless people in America
'12.01.2021'
Homeless, alarm clocks and a sense of freedom ...
Empty hotels around the world, in order to somehow survive, began to let homeless people in, in agreement with local municipalities and various charitable organizations. They are provided with rooms, amenities, hot water, food ... But, many either immediately refuse this or still settle in, but soon leave the “happy abode” and return to the street.
And I wondered, why is this so? But it is impossible to answer this question without understanding how they got on the streets and why they became homeless. There is an opinion that a homeless person is someone who has lost a source of income, a job, an apartment, a family and ... ended up on the street. Yes, it happens. But after interviewing dozens of homeless people, I discovered that this is not always the case. More precisely, in most cases it is not.
A small lyrical digression.
We have power and decency, and rules, and traditions, and tax authorities, and municipal kings and queens, and the police and whoever you want ... But the main power over us has - you will not believe - time ...
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You can't come to an agreement with him. It inexorably propels you from the sign where it says “start” to the finish line. Where the start is known, but where the finish line is, fortunately not. And alarms are ringing all over the world, urging people to work, and to pick up children from school, and hand over the project on time.
And there are people who are sick of this race. And at some point, they begin to feel in their gut that this is not for them. That they have houses, cars, and expensive things, but there is no main thing. They were deprived of their freedom, and replaced it with surrogates in the form of heated toilets, three hundred programs on the TV bin and a fridge filled to capacity. And they suddenly ... rise up. They give up everything, family and amenities and career, and go ... to the pampas. In our case - to the street. There is nothing there: no toilet (you need to look for it), no property, no food (you need to get it or know the places where it is served). There is one thing - freedom. Also - not absolute, but relative. They, the homeless, are chased, shied away from them, sometimes beaten, mocked by all and sundry ...
And this is what a thirst for freedom must overcome a person so that he, despising all this, does not spit and return to the world where time rules, but remains where time has no power over him. Don't get me wrong. There, on the street, time also flows, but they do not feel it. They live in a certain timelessness. Ate, slept, sat, walked around, lay down, ate, thought, looked around, slept or ate again ... They are not interested in hot showers, clean linen and the opinions of others. These people get stuck in an intermediate stage, between a humanoid living in the matrix and an animal freed from temporary and imperious shackles.
This is exactly the case. I found out. And, naturally, I thought about us. And why are we free without freedom of speech, deed, choice, and much more, which could have been, but either never happened, or has not been for a long time ... But we do not know that there is. We swim in the usual soup of everyday worries and worries, out of habit considering them the norm. In another, we have never swum, so we do not protrude from the line. We go in formation. And some do not want to, most likely because they cannot. They are sick of our way of life.
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And they run from hotel rooms with clean beds and helpful toilets away, into the street, to freedom. Apparently, even the very walls of the building in which the hotels are located, they are also constrained, strangled. A kind of Mowgli, born if not ONLINE, then FOR freedom. An example for us - and a reproach too ...
The next time you walk past a homeless person, think about it. I already thought. And ... I thought about it. So far, I confess honestly, I do not plan to give up the comfort and convenience of living in civilized conditions, but the thought has settled in my head. Go know what can grow out of it. Go know ...
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