sometimes I hate that I care about people too much

@empanadas

A lot of the homeless also have mental dissorders. They need professional help, some even need to be in hospitals.

@empanadas I definitely don’t feel like your post was judgement. You’re also right that some of them aren’t homeless. At the same time, it’s not helpful to assume everybody is abusing the system until they do something that proves to you otherwise (like, for all you know, this guy might have an allergy to eggs. You just don’t know).. so not so much for their sake, although that plays a part, but for your own heart. The thought processes calluses it unnecessarily.

I also want add that there’s a difference between someone who is newly homeless versus how you feel after you’ve been homeless for an extended period of time. Someone might assume that the longer you are homeless the more desperate, more in despair you become, but that’s not what happens in a modern society where there are resources to lessen literal death in the streets. It’s a trade off. Humans are also adaptive. Even the ones who have severe illness and addiction also have survival mechanisms that seek out some kind of homeostasis (meaning not that desperation, despair that you felt when you were freshly sleeping on benches). If you’d been forced to be homeless longer (meaning you had no pre-existing resources to get back on your feet ) eventually you would’ve figured out better shelter than the bench, a better way to get food than whatever a stranger hands you, accustomed to various discomforts etc

@empanadas The want to help others shows that you have a good heart. The fact that you got mad because they were negative means you are judgmental. You can't change people you can only accept them for what they are and i hope you never have to experience what it feels like to be on the street. What you did is a good thing don't let my comment on Here affect you negatively.

@Lostpoet tbh people need to be held accountable for not having common curiosity. If someone is being nice to you then you are rude to them as a response then how you do expect to be feel good that you wasted money on someone who didn't really need the food like they claimed? Meanwhile someone actually needs. pretty judgemental to think I'm coming at this from an outside of view

@empanadas

tbh, that's some third reich view point to me.

Can i ask you what you do for a living?

@Stark Orlando area. I did not realize you had moved back.

@ViciDraco yeah, I moved back about three years ago (:
I hope you’re staying safe. I haven’t heard much about Orlando with this hurricane but I did hear it was heading towards there. 🤔

@Stark I've got no home internet, but everything else is good. ☺️

@hikikomorii honestly I doubt that. If someone is actually in the streets and hungry, the fact someone actually acknowledges them with an act of kindness is showing them, they are human. Not just someone to ignore. There's a sense of entitlement in the people you claim to have been in class for.

@hikikomorii in the way you’re acting it’s like I should go up to them with a pen and pad and apron on and ask how they like their steak cooked and wait on them.

@hikikomorii That’s ridiculous so people are just suppose to cater to them as if they’re on a date because they’re homeless and they’re begging ? I think that’s a bit of a selfish mindset to have honestly and instead they should be grateful people are going out of their way to spend their money which they’re not required to in giving them what they’re able to give.

As warywitch mention if anything, I think it’s more humiliating begging on the streets asking for money or as most of the signs I’ve read say “anything helps” and then turning it down because you want something better.

@Viper most are on the street for addiction… obviously not ALL. Either way it’s sad… if you’re begging, you’d think food and water would be a first on your list.

@Lilymoon no