mattymatt wrote:
I found this to be an interesting thread as I find homeless people very easy to talk to, (more so than even my own family). I am also a bit imprudent as I usually give a bit of money depending on the situation. I am not even sure how this happened, but recently I encountered a homeless person, and I now I have been helping him and his girlfriend with buying them clothes, food, and paying for a place to stay while they look for work. (And they actually were, as I was driving them around while they filled out applications.)
My thoughts tend to be more poetic and abstract and less practical. I have to really concentrate and focus to think of things like paying bills, doing laundry and the like, and my brain gets consumed by social or religious issues of the day.
This couple is, as they say in that urban slang, "from the hood". In listening to their life stories, I don't even think that they were taught or shown basic things about filling out an application and the like, so I was trying to help them with that.
Today, I was feeling really sad, and having the sense that I was "pretending" to have the answers as far as this couple is concerned. I probably should not have taken them on, and I find that I make my life seemingly complex while wanting some simplicity...I'm sorry, now I am rambling on.
You sound like a very decent guy.
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