12/03/2025
I didn't write this, but i definitely agree
Have you ever been to the trap houses? Ever sat down with the "dirty, trashy addicts" and tried to figure out how they got there? I have. You know many addicts have had all their stuff stolen. Do you know how hard it is to get an ID when you have no ID? If you have no shower or clean clothes, then how TF do you get a job? If you haven't eaten in a week or two and you have no job and no ID, then how do you buy food? Do you know that a bag of m**h costs just as much as a meal at McDonald's? Only that McDonald's is gonna go through your system, and you’re gonna be hungry again in a few hours. That bag of m**h is gonna block the hunger pains for at least a day. Do you know that to enter a rehab, the patient can't talk to their family for at least two weeks? They can't smoke, and most facilities prohibit caffeine. So basically you’re withdrawing from everything your system knows, all while being completely isolated and probably locked up with people that you dont like or that make you uncomfortable. Now, let's talk about what can be done. Let's create some sort of liason with social security and vital statistics so these people can get an ID. They can't get a job, or a room, or even visit the food pantries without an ID. Y'all mock the crazy lady with the shovel walking around in her underwear. She was trying to make money while everyone mocked her. Have you ever been exposed to the elements 24 hrs a day? Have you ever been hungry, cold, or roasting hot for more than a few hours? These people are stronger than you think. I've sat in trap houses and watched “m**h heads”paint pictures Picasso would envy. I've watched young people blow the most beautiful glass bubbles with nothing but a blow torch and his lips. I've met singers, dancers, and poets that wrote sonnets so deep your heart cries. But instead of tapping into that energy and talent, we make a mockery of it because we don't know what it's like to live that life. We didn't always have houses and electricity and wifi. These people survive how they can. Who are we to say they can't sleep next to a river that belongs not to us but to the universe? Don't like the mess? Cool, create fire pits, put a few trash cans out, and some needle disposal boxes. How about we fund a few shelters along the river instead of huge useless round abouts. How about we make these bad ass kids who feel the world owes them everything & have no respect for anybody, go out on the weekends, and clean up the riverbanks for some community service? They want gang s**t? Ok, let’s give’em chain gangs and maybe in the meantime, they can get a lil taste of the hard life. Prison is nothing compared to the life these people live. Prison provides 3 meals a day, a bed, a roof, healthcare, work programs, education, AND television. Stop the hating! Get your bougie a**** out from behind the damn screens and talk to people. Buy them a cup of coffee. Offer them hygiene products or a change of clothes and show them you care. Even if you can't save them, you've shown them that they are worth it and loved, and that's what this world needs most. I've lived that life. No one is better than anyone else. We are equal. The stuff we go through may be different, or maybe your problems aren't visible to others, but everyone has som**hing. Stop judging and show more love!💯�
🛑🛑 **Now take less than 30 seconds and do us all a favor, copy & paste this.... why? Because it’s the truth. Dont ever forget the help we get from random acts of kindness or the person who took a chance with you to help you out of a hole.
