whenever i look at this photo, an emotion comes through my body and just takes over my thoughts.
i look at the man outside maccas and he just looks like hes defeated. that he cant be bothered fighting against anything either for him or anybody else. he makes me feel this sense of sadness and injustice that appears in our world these days.
how could people walk past him and not see him as who he is? someone who needs help and someone who needs something to believe in. millions of people eat at maccas and not one of them will come out and pause their eating for a moment to let him know that they are there for him. that they are willing to help him and give him their small fries.
in our society today, nobody cares about things unless they see it for themselves. majority of us don't think of poverty unless we have seen someone living in conditions where they don't have any food or money to survive on. the saying is true "OUT OF SIGHT, OUT OF MIND"
i remember this one time that my dad, my brother and i were in the city since my brother wanted to see this skateboarding competition. we were just walking past and i saw one of the cruelest things in my entire life. there was a homeless man getting bashed by a group of grown men. they were punching, pushing and throwing glass bottles at the man. all he had were the clothes on his back and a old mattress which he had found to sleep on. they were intentionally harming a man who had nothing in possession. they attacked a man who was less fortunate than those men. they showed their anger on a human being who was having trouble surviving instead of showing that anger into a punching bag. i could never and never will understand why those men decided to intentionally harm that man who had done nothing to them. my dad was scared that they could come after us, so we left quickly. i wished that i could do anything for him but i was 6 at the time.
i think if we took 5 minutes out of our lives to think about those less fortunate than us, how they survive in a world where at times we can barely stay afloat ourselves, then we will be taking a step towards ending this injustice. if we save every $1 coin that we get from change or from finding around our home, then over time we could help people come out of the injustice and into a world where they can eat, drink and sleep where they please. where they don't have to worry about where they will sleep at night and when they will have their next meal. if we save $1 every day for a year then that's $365. imagine the food you could buy with that. imagine buying a warm blanket to cover yourself on a cold night. if one class from our school were to do that, imagine what we could save. 24 students giving $1 every school day. THAT'S $6720. a person could rent a home, buy food, buy their necessities. they could get a job and get a steady income. people who don't have a home are less likely to get a job then someone who is established.
imagine the difference you can make to one person if you open your hearts.