It is hard trying to sell Street Sense with panhandlers interrupting you as you try to talk with customers. It’s especially hard when you try to keep your temper when others can be so judgmental.
I am waiting on affordable housing and staying clean from alcohol and drugs.
I get up early every morning to wash up in a neighborhood store bathroom before the customers come in. Again, I am trying to stay clean around the people buying my copies of Street Sense.
I want to thank everyone one who helps homeless people. But it troubles that some people aren’t trying to help themselves. It hurts me to stand there selling my papers and see someone else down and out, drinking alcohol nearby. And people still give the drinker money!
I am doing something positive to try and save my life and prevent others from being homeless. But I will have to check my own standards for others and focus on me. The only way to do this is to keep someone in my corner: God.
