Homeless alone
I find this pretty fascinating. Firstly because I&#x27;m overwhelmed with sympathy for this guy, and I stopped to ask why. I live in Chicago and I see the homeless every day, and I know it&#x27;s a problem and I wish I could fix it but I don&#x27;t know how, and giving a dollar to every person I pass would actually start to have a hefty toll ($20+&#x2F;day or more, <i>easily.</i>) So since moving to the city I made it a blanket rule not to give hand-outs in that form.<p>But because this guy keeps a blog, because he is articulate and just sounds like another guy, easily could be me, because he still has his voice, I&#x27;m almost tempted to send him a couple hundred dollars over paypal. I haven&#x27;t yet, but the temptation is there. Just because I can hear his story instead of just see him sitting on a sidewalk. It makes it so much harder to walk by.<p>I do wish I knew more about how it happened. I always wonder that. I usually think there must have been some bad choices made along the way. Not that anyone&#x27;s free of bad choices. But, why did he instantly become homeless after his mother sold the house? Why didn&#x27;t he have any savings at that age? Why didn&#x27;t he have any old friends who would take him in to help him out? I know not everyone is so fortunate as to have those things, of course, but still I wonder how it happens.