So today I needed a cigarette not a pack just a couple. I haven’t smoked in three years and the need was there.
so I went in to a store and bought a pack. I couldn’t believe the price of a pack. I asked why they were so much and told taxes. But yes all my blogs have a butt I know but this one is important.
a lady behind me decided to get involved. She told me that anyone that can afford to some could afford the taxes and that the tax was for schools and children. I asked what about the homeless. She told me they didn’t need to smoke they already lived off the system.
now I have been homeless. And lucky enough to have a car. But I have seen first hand what out homeless go through. Some are mentally ill. Some are just down and out and have fallen deeper than myself. But most of them don’t live off the system. They don’t qualify because they don’t have an address. But here is the reality of that. You see a cigarette and cup of coffee take away the hunger pain so for them saving for a pack can mean they can go for a couple of days without eating and feel hunger. They share because they know what it’s like to feel hungry. So before anyone judges a homeless person because they smoke should go two three DM days without eating. That pain is awful. You can at one point feel like your stomach is eating it’s self. This has to stop. This crazy idea of one person knowing what’s best for someone else is crazy.
now I took my two cigarettes and gave the rest of the pack and a ten to a homeless man sitting in the grass. I know he will share but I also know he will not feel hunger for a while.
stop judging it’s just not right.
