Today some volunteers visited our school and some of them were homeless before. They told us real stories of being homeless. A man came to our group and we interviewed him. He was grown up in a Christian household with strict and religious parents. He became rebellious and got addictive to drug which kept him away from saving money to afford housing so he became homeless. He bounced around from shelter to shelter or even on the streets because being drug addictive kept him away from a good shelter. Later he was referred to a detox program by a friend who had already been going through it. Another story was about young woman. She had a miserable childhood: she was sexually abused by her stepfather. Later when she was 13 she run away to New York and met a man who became her pimp. The man made her addictive to heroin. After went through all these misfortune she became homeless and started to sleep under Bridges. Thanks to Pine Street Inn and what program has done for her, she has changed her life completely now. She is part of the homelessness speakers' Bureau and tells people about her experience. I feel I am so lucky to have all the things I have now and no longer take things for granted after hearing these stories. We often want to have more money, bigger house and better car. Actually we should cherish what we have now especially our families and friends. Lots of homeless people went through things that we could not imagine. We should try to help them instead of ignoring them.
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