The Homeless
When I walk the streets and a homeless-looking person approaches me, I normally try to politely avoid them. Sometimes I am walking with someone else, and that someone else might make a comment about the homeless. But the more I think about it the more I realise that I don't anything about them and so, this extract from Alexander Masters book was very revealing.
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That article reminds me of Orwell's Down and out in London and Paris where he recounts his time as a poverty-stricken, homeless man in the cities of the title. There's an excerpt of the book in his collection "Essays".
I also heard a great hip-hop track on FBI recently that made an interesting point about people on the streets asking for money. Poorly paraphrased, it said something like:
A beggar asked me for some money on the street today
I told him "no, get a job" and thought to myself, "ahh, it'd be a waste, he's only going use it for drugs and booze"
Then I realised, "wait a minute, I'm going to spend it on drugs and booze"
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