Homelessness

By Eddy

The winter I remember is when I was between residences. In the winter of 1997, I was evicted from my home with only a short time to find another home. In that winter, I spent time outside, in the drop-in, or stayed in the shelters. This made me a better man because I learned about how hard it is to live in this city.

The cost of living is so expensive that one cannot afford to live by himself. It took me four months to find a suitable apartment for me. That was a year of lessons.

I learned how people promise a thing to you and never go through with it. I had family say they would help and never did. Even friends said they would help with their credit and never did.

That was something I had to learn. So I now know who will be there for me, when things go bad for me. I also learned about how they behaved towards me. Some of them did not even talk to me. They considered me homeless or a loser.