Over the past two weeks, I feel like my understanding of homelessness has changed a lot. Statistically, I've learned a lot about homelessness in the United States, but I also believe that I've learned a lot from a social standpoint. For example, a lot of people look down on homeless men and women. There have been so many times in my life where someone will refer to a homeless man or woman as "that bum over there". But we don't really know anything about that person, the keyword being "person". We don't know why that person is homeless; there could be so many possible reasons. People believe that just because homeless men and women ask others for money, that they're somehow below them; but people don't know how hard it can be to ask someone for money. In my opinion, if all of the homeless men and women could be making their own money, they would much rather being doing that. Asking other people for money can be a huge blow to someones pride and ego. Just because they're homeless, it doesn't mean that they don't deserve to be treated like human beings.
What I'm trying to say is, what I've really learned in the past two weeks, is how to look at homeless men and women. I've "realized" that they're equal to me and everyone else in the world.