Winter Time

Winter weather is upon us, and most of us just add extra layers of clothes onto our outfits. And time how long we will have to be outside, because the cold is slowly eating away at the feeling in our fingers and faces. Lucky for us thou we have dorms, apartments, cars, and friends who will let us stay the night. Where it's nice and warm, but unfortunately for alot of people in the greater Atlanta area who are homeless. They have no choice but to try and find quite place to sleep for the night. Where the wind won't be as hasrh on their bones, which are usually empty stairwells and alley ways of the such. But there are people who own stores and that will allow them to sit in their heated store until they close. As long as they don 't distrub their customers and depending on the store owner they might even give them a couple of dollars to clean around the store. There are also homeless shelters which opens around 5pm and closes in between 7 and or 8pm i'm not sure. They feed them and give them a place to sleep i'm not too sure if they have showers or no, i don't see why not but that's besides the point. As for how we treat the mentally ill and veterans in Atlanta, if they don't have someone to keep them or pay for them to stay somewhere, i'm afarid they're pretty much on their own. No companies will hire them once it has been proved that they are mentally ill or incapable of work. And if they are a danger to themselves and others what can we do with them. It's a very frustrating situation, and it just jerks at your hearts strings and makes you feel bad about their situation. It makes you feel like you don't want that to ever be you one day. You don't ever want to fall so far from grace that you are thought of and seen as a parasite on society. A virus of sorts unable to live and or substain itself with out a host, willing or unwilling. But none of this changes the fact tthat before they got put on the street, before they lost their sanity. And before they got fired, almost died, lost their house in Katrinia. Or is just really hungry and needs a dollar or whatever change you might have on you. One second before you turn away lie and say you don't and judge them, know that their people too.