I was never exposed to homelessness or to homeless people in my life!
(in SA we don't have this terrible issue)
What I saw was a bunch of pictures of homeless with a caption under each picture from the own words of the unfortunate person in the picture.
I just wanna indicate and emphasize on "unfortunate" because i really hate it when people say that poor or homeless people are like that because of their own mistakes or laziness, and that's so not true, just like being rich doesn't mean your a better person you just got lucky, actually we can say that many of rich people are evil who lie and cheat for money and poor people are mostly nice and good people who just weren't lucky.
Back to the exhibit. What I really liked was on one of the pictures with a group of homeless people laughing and smiling and looking happy and the caption said:" we are homeless not hopeless. "
That was strong.
One more thing I honestly adored was that 19 years old homeless mom that wanted for her 1 year old son to grow up and be strong like her.- That's really strong!
But then there were these couple pictures that stroked my heart, a 12 year old homeless kid facing the roughness of this inhumane life all by himself. In one of the captions what he's saying can break a rock - and I quote:
" I stand on the corner -- no place to go. My mind all twisted with my own thoughts. No place to go. Nowhere to turn. No one to love and no one to love me. I stand and wonder where to go so I live on the streets with the trees as my friends and the grass as my bed. " !!
What's really tough about homelessness that it's like a vortex!
Once you get in it keeps pulling down and down and it feels like it's impossible to get out of it and it really is semi-impossible to get out of on your own.
Then when you start loosing hope and it feels like this is your last seconds, someone throws the lifeline right at you and a new life is written and ahead of you .
Unfortunately this doesn't happen a lot with the vortex because it kills in the matter of seconds.
Likewise with homelessness except it's not a vortex and it doesn't kill in seconds, and there's always a hope for the homeless person that someone will give him a chance to live and throw the lifeline at him.
That's the whole point from the vortex thing, We all should help the homeless people to stand on their feet in their own HOMES and that's our responsibility not their's!
- and we gotta keep in mind that any of us can be homeless one day and we'll need help-
If they can't help themselves and all we have to do to save their lives is a small effort that's not gonna cost us much -us fortunate ones- and still we choose not to help, what does that make us?!!!
Simply: K I L L E R S
Here is a few organizations in Rochester that we all can help through either by volunteering or by donating:
http://homelessconnectrochester.org/
http://centerforyouth.net/
http://www.use.salvationarmy.org/use/www_use_rochesterny.nsf
http://www.hillside.com/
http://www.cfcrochester.org/
p.s: I got carried away huh?! lol,, but it's a really tough issue for me and it was a long day and i'm honestly so tired and sleepy to rewrite or edit right now, besides, i ain't so accurate about what am i supposed to write about exactly :)
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