winter/cold fukkin up the homeless .. appreciation

[MajesticLion]

 

[RhodyRum]

I knew someone was gonna have something to say without having any idea of the situation. People are consistently dumb.

I have offered my space. Attic, fully furnished and comfortable.

He declined, has to stay in a program that finds work for felons and its based out of Bridgeport.

He's got addiction issues and several charges against his name.

Drove him 2 hours from watch night service back to his shelter in B.Port and another 2hrs back to get myself home at 5 in the morning.

Literally went to a military recruitment office for him this on Monday where I spoke to the Marine recruitment officer(airforce/army/navy recruiters were out on vacation) about the odds of them allowing a 30+ year old man to enlist.

Got covid(either from him or the recruiter) and still trying to find ways to get my boy back on solid ground while feeling like a train ran me over.

Don't speak on what you don't know.

That's not a friend.

That's an albatross.

Fukk keepin' it real. Associate with better people.

Don't care how far y'all go back or how much y'all are like brothers or whatever corny shıt nikkas say to excuse keeping an albatross hanging from their necks.

 

[get these nets]

Shucking and jiving for attention. Luckily the ignore button works.

 

[Eternally Jaded]

That's not a friend.

That's an albatross.

Fukk keepin' it real. Associate with better people.

Don't care how far y'all go back or how much y'all are like brothers or whatever corny shıt nikkas say to excuse keeping an albatross hanging from their necks.

It's not always that simple. Known dude since we were babies.

Our mothers were friends in childhood. Share relatives.

If I got the call that he was gone, and I had blocked his number and deaded all contact...... that would eat me alive.

Plus tbh, dude is sincerely good people. He just had none of the chances that me and most of my friends did.

I was raised in a two parent home with loving stable parents. Who respected each other and worked great jobs.

He was raised in cracked out apartments(mom got twisted out with the hard stuff) with damn near 10 siblings from like 5 different guys.

Never worked, always on assistance.

Dude grew up in something like an after school scared straight program.

All I want is for my brother to be good and stable.

 

[Fill Collins]

If we're not gonna house the homeless, we ought to deport them to Guam or Puerto Rico

 

[The Wall Is Undefeated!]

It's always easy punching down.

As politically incorrect as I am, not even I will make fun or mock homeless people's plight in the winter.

 

[Groundworks]

been nice.. last couple weeks no tweaker homeless fux sleepin outside my building

You an alcoholic cripple rice cac, who are you to judge.

 

[Windows 91]

Name crossed out, did OP get banned?

 

[HipHopStan]

Name crossed out, did OP get banned?

Yes, and it couldn't have happened to a worser poster.

EDIT - Well I can think of about three others I'd like to see with a slash across their username here, but he was in my Top 5.

 

[The Intergalactic Koala]

If we're not gonna house the homeless, we ought to deport them to Guam or Puerto Rico

Might as well ship them to Morocco.

When I was homeless, I was trying to stick out the good thumb to hitchhike to get over there

 

[The Half-Blood FKA Prince]

if you were that sick he would be on your couch

everybody clutching their pearls in this thread but how much help are you offering those people?
probably none because like every other normal person you cross the street when you see one talking to themselves

Yeah to be fair, breh said he was sick, he aint say he was an unrealistic, impractical, enabling doormat for self destructive addicts.

Ive had loved ones out there running the streets strung out too. And i actually was all of the above enough to take myself and my family through a terrible ordeal trying to help one of them. And all i got out of it was an important life lesson: they will fukk up ur whole life way faster and waaaaay more efficiently than u can even BEGIN to fix theirs. In essence u are just helping them destroy themselves better and letting them bring u and anyone else in ur/their domain down with them.

I may have failed in my task, but at least i can say i had the wisdom to know a lost cause when i saw one and cut my losses before shyt could spiral any further than i already let it. As well as the mental shrewdness to get a valuable lesson out of the deal at least.

And im sure that was pretty much ur point, brother. But im just saying u may be right, but that dont mean breh u quoting was wrong. U cant help these people, only they can help themselves. But u can, and will still feel sick knowing someone u love is going through that shyt.

 

[Zime]

So this is what got him bushed? Well deserved I guess.

 

[jilla82]

Yeah to be fair, breh said he was sick, he aint say he was an unrealistic, impractical, enabling doormat for self destructive addicts.

Ive had loved ones out there running the streets strung out too. And i actually was all of the above enough to take myself and my family through a terrible ordeal trying to help one of them. And all i got out of it was an important life lesson: they will fukk up ur whole life way faster and waaaaay more efficiently than u can even BEGIN to fix theirs. In essence u are just helping them destroy themselves better and letting them bring u and anyone else in ur/their domain down with them.

I may have failed in my task, but at least i can say i had the wisdom to know a lost cause when i saw one and cut my losses before shyt could spiral any further than i already let it. As well as the mental shrewdness to get a valuable lesson out of the deal at least.

And im sure that was pretty much ur point, brother. But im just saying u may be right, but that dont mean breh u quoting was wrong. U cant help these people, only they can help themselves. But u can, and will still feel sick knowing someone u love is going through that shyt.

I agree with everything you wrote...
...but it still concludes with nobody wanting to live around all that.

with the homeless comes drugs and crime.

people may not like how OP worded things but they would react the same if a tent city started around where they live.

 

[Wepa Man]

Foul

 

[The Half-Blood FKA Prince]

I agree with everything you wrote...
...but it still concludes with nobody wanting to live around all that.

with the homeless comes drugs and crime.

people may not like how OP worded things but they would react the same if a tent city started around where they live.

No arguments here, i know i certainly dont want that shyt around me, and WONT have it around my family, ever again. What i didnt mention is we are recovering addicts as well. Our drugs of choice was just a little different. But that dont mean shyt any sweater like i convinced my self it would be. My wife already knew, but i used to have to learn everything the hard way.

Its not what op said that is the issue for me. Its how he said it, and the notion(though he was probably trolling-i hope)that he got some sort of joy from their plight. Admittedly i can empathize with his feelings. One thing i learned when soul searching is it helps to try to see both sides of the argument.

Like i mentioned with u and dude u posted, in any dispute neither side is always necessarily wrong or right. Its levels of shades of grey usually. We just gotta shift our own thoughts and feelings to the side to see it sometimes.

But i see where u and everyone else is coming from though.

edit: just to add a little more depth, its easy for us to dismiss these people as trash and cross the street when we see them. Its self preservation, and simplifies a complicated series of emotions that arise from that.

But when u consider that these are actually people, who have people who love them, it humanizes them and makes us feel things we rather not have to deal with in our already overwhelmed heads.

And these people who love them are going through this addiction and every thing it entails with them. The only real difference is we not getting the any of the so called "reward" that precious shot of artificial euphoria that the addict alone gets out of the whole sad affair. We just get all the pain and heartbreak and problems.