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You ever stop to wonder why you do certain things? Is it because
you've done it for so long that you just haven't found the necessity
for change, or maybe other people have taught you since you were young
that it's the only way to do things, or to even think for that matter.
Why
do people just brush off homeless people so easily in the street? Why
do we ignore them so often, like they're not even there?
The homeless have always gained criticism, whether deserved or not.
"He's probably a deadbeat drunken father who left his family because he just couldn't put down the bottle."
"That guy probably does drugs, and deals too."
"Why doesn't he just get a job? Clean himself up and at least try?"
Obviously
there's a whole huge debate about the possibilities of why people
actually land in the position of being homeless in the first place. Of
course, one could assume that the person did have control of the
outcome, and just chose not to assume responsibility. Or they could
have just simply given up and lost hope. Or maybe they were forced into
a situation that was completely out of their control. Although it's
unfortunate, the latter often times does become excluded from people's
generalized reasoning. A lot of time, people like to assume the worst
about others, it's a sad truth.
So of course, that whole
argument can go in a whole multitude of directions. We can branch off
into talking politics and economic policy from that too -- go into
welfare policy, EI, public spending on providing relief towards victims
and the fair/unfairness of it all to us tax-payers, socialism vs.
capitalism... bla bla bla
But seriously, who cares.
The
truth is: they are human. Regardless of their life story, and of where
you stand on the left-right-wing spectrum, these people are human. You
may choose to look down on them for whatever reason to boost your own
personal ego, but f***, it's cold outside.
People don't realize how cold it is outside. It's really cold.
None
of us would know because we're all wrapped up in our warm winter coats,
hats, mittens, and scarves, tucked inside our warm cars and warm homes.
But these people know how cold it can really get. Compound that with
having to be on the receiving end of people being cold back to them,
and damn.
I walked so many streets today. Passed by a number of
homeless people, and walked by them all without giving even a moment of
my time as I had been 'socio-trained' to do in the past. I think it
took me until the last street that I had to cross when I looked down at
my hand, and at the red Banana Republic bag with a newly-bought sweater
in it. Thinking back to all the things that people have told me in the
past, or the reasons why people ignore the homeless in the streets...
"They're dangerous, they don't deserve it, etc."
But why should that even matter?
I
had finally made it to the Subway station after going through said
thoughts. I decided then to make a quick turnaround and walk back to
the man that I had passed earlier, the one in the brown hat and
worn-out jeans shivering in the corner with a blanket draped over him,
just a short traffic light away. He didn't have a cardboard sign, he
wasn't asking anyone for handouts or doing anything to bother anyone
during their "ever-so-important" Christmas shopping. He was just lying
there, curled underneath his blanket... trying to hold on to every
ounce of warmth that he could. And virtually ignored by every passerby who walked on like he just wasn't even there.
I walked over and put some money
under the mat that he was lying on (he was turned facing the other
way), and hurriedly rushed back to catch my subway train.
He knows what cold feels like. The ground, the air... the people.
I'm
not saying go out and change the world. I'm probably being a hypocrite
in a number of ways, as I'm far from the most humanitarian
'change-the-world' type person out there. I dunno, I just want people
to have a little perspective I guess, and to try not to let
preconceived notions or thoughts that may have been embedded in their
heads all this time, overrule their own good heart and respect for
human life. I realize it's one of my own faults, and something I'll
need closer work on. But yeah.
Anyways, stay warm this holiday, and be warm to each other.
-Denis | | |
| denis [ Raps 7-11 ] says:
yo how long did your grad pics take to arrive after you ordered?
| Vince | [GT: 5-6-1] [RHCCC: 2-5-1] says:
like a month
denis [ Raps 7-11 ] says:
eff
| Vince | [GT: 5-6-1] [RHCCC: 2-5-1] says:
LOL
| Vince | [GT: 5-6-1] [RHCCC: 2-5-1] says:
give me one
| Vince | [GT: 5-6-1] [RHCCC: 2-5-1] says:
i'll put it in my wallet
denis [ Raps 7-11 ] says:
k i'll put yours in mine too
| Vince | [GT: 5-6-1] [RHCCC: 2-5-1] says:
ughh
denis [ Raps 7-11 ] says:
.....ugggghhhh
| Vince | [GT: 5-6-1] [RHCCC: 2-5-1] says:
SO GAY
denis [ Raps 7-11 ] says:
THE HELL
denis [ Raps 7-11 ] says:
u started it
denis [ Raps 7-11 ] says:
i'll hang yours on my wall
| Vince | [GT: 5-6-1] [RHCCC: 2-5-1] says:
adhgjkalfhglkasg
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| HAHAHA
The rapist is RIGHT THERE!!! LOL
I just had to post this... completely random, but sooo funny
-Denis
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| Just finished watching the last two episodes of Smallville...
and I've decided that I'm dressing up as the "Green Arrow" for Halloween, regardless of how stupid I look. I'll look stupid and be proud of it! Anyways, from Smallville....
omg, Green Arrow trying to recruit Clark to join the Justice League...
omg, Green Arrow's dark past with Lex
omg, Green Arrow's ultra-super-magnetic-field-generating special arrow
and
OMG, when Geoffrey (Arrow's school friend) says goodbye to Arrow and
Lois, he says "I've got to be getting back to Gotham now".... I nearly
flipped out of my seat thinking he was Batman
....and then he got blown up in an exploding car about 5 seconds after, so that killed that :(
but regardless, here's what I've just found out on some newssite:
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It's finally happening...Smallville
is integrating the other superheroes from the Justice League for one
giant cornucopia of superhero goodness which will be episode 10 this
season.
Already confirmed for return are Aqua Man, Flash, and possibly...Batman!
That would be absolutely amazing! The episode is so top secret that
they're printing on transparencies and no one is allowed to read it!
Stay tuned for news in the coming days.
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also from another site:
2.
Sometime in 2007, Smallville will, indeed, feature a Justice League
assembled by Green Arrow, uniting Cyborg, Flash and Aquaman from
previous seasons. --------------
and from Wikipedia:
Also according to Alfred Gough,
episode eleven of season six will be titled "Justice", and will feature
appearances by Green Arrow, Flash, Aquaman, and Cyborg. -----------
OMMMMGGGGGGGG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Noone can possibly fathom how freaking excited and giddy I am right now. 
Yes, I'm a dork... don't be hatin 
Bart aka "The Flash" (Season 4 Episode 5):
+
Victor aka "Cyborg" (Season 5 Episode 15):
+
Arthur aka "Aquaman" (Season 5 Episode 4):
+
Oliver aka "Green Arrow" (Season 6 Episodes 2-5):
+
Clark aka "Superman" (Seasons 1-6):
all come together in one episode 
.............
-Denis
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| I think I speak for every single BBA student right now, when I say "I don't care anymore." Anyways, after studying for countless hours on end, I'm pretty much had enough of accounting and this GAAP jargon.
I started listening to some really old music from first year, most of which I deleted a while ago and had to re-download. I was listening to "be without you" by Mary J Blige, and I suddenly remembered that I use to listen to that song every single morning and every single night in Montreal this past year. I remember everything about that audit...I hated the smell of the hotel, and dreaded every single morning I woke up. I use to loathe Monday mornings where I would wake up at 5am and get on a frigin plane and then work 11 hours ontop of that. Thinking back, I still get shivers. I hated it there so much....I can truely say now (because it's over), that it was the single worst experience of my life. Litterally, I kid you not. I felt like a prisoner forced to wake up every morning and do something I really did not like and really did not care about.
Thinking back on that experience....exams suddenly don't seem so bad. Exams actually seems like a paradise. I would rather study and write 50 exams than go back to Montreal and audit that client. Oh God, I get so scared thinking about it...I never want to go back there.
-Vince | | |
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