On Friday, I finally got the chance to do something that I've always wanted to do, it's something that I think everyone should do. I fed the homeless. When you're walking down the street and you see someone homeless sitting there, I personally don't believe in giving them money, I believe that you should always give them food because you don't know what someone is going to use the money for.
I didn't go alone, I went to buy the food from Asda with my friends Zoe and Kayleigh and we bought:
- Large bottles of water x5
- A range of sandwiches x3
- Packets of biscuits x5
- Dog food and treats x9
I bet you're thinking "why dog food?" but we feel really bad when we see homeless people with pets- especially when the pets look really malnourished and starved. Then we separated the shopping into separate bags of which had contents that were of an almost equal amount .
Next, we searched through the Elephant and Castle under-paths, where we usually find people, but there were no people around. I think the cops told made them leave . Just when we were about to give up with that area and head to central London, we spotted a man sleeping on the stairs. We woke him up and gave him one of the bags, he was really grateful and said his thank yous before we left. After his positive acceptance of the bag, I felt like such a cow for being hesitant. It's not like we didn't want to hand him the bag or anything, it's just that talking to a complete stranger and not knowing how they were going to react to us and the bags was quite scary.
When we arrived at central London, we came to the discovery that there was some kind of bike marathon going on, so most of the streets were closed and the police had shooed away all of the homeless, I guess because they wanted the area to look 'better', I strongly disagree with that.
We spent the next two hours walking around central London looking for people but we were tired of walking and holding the bags ( the bottles of water were surprisingly heavy) so we started giving up. Then we found one person. A man and his dog. We gave him an Asda bag that also had dog food and started heading home.
We spent the next two hours walking around central London looking for people but we were tired of walking and holding the bags ( the bottles of water were surprisingly heavy) so we started giving up. Then we found one person. A man and his dog. We gave him an Asda bag that also had dog food and started heading home.
On our way to the bus stop, there was a woman sat outside a tesco express, we gave her a bag and kept on walking but we assumed that we weren't going to find anyone else, so we went back to her and gave her another bag. Literally two minutes later, we turn a corner and see a different man with a dog, so we give him the final asda bag ( the one with both human and dog food), he thanks us and we keep on walking. About seven steps away from him sat another man. I felt really bad that we had nothing to give to him because we had previously given the woman two bags, if only we had seen him first. I guess the good thing that came out of that is the woman now has two gallons of water and a few sandwiches.
Whilst on the bus, we drove past the streets that we had walked previously and saw more people sitting on the ground and laying in sleeping bags. This was the worst feeling of all. It sucked that we couldn't help them, not only because we were on the bus, but because had already spent all of the money we had.
Whilst on the bus, we drove past the streets that we had walked previously and saw more people sitting on the ground and laying in sleeping bags. This was the worst feeling of all. It sucked that we couldn't help them, not only because we were on the bus, but because had already spent all of the money we had.
Anyway, I've got another quote and picture for you all,
Hmm...HMM..
Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
Confucius
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