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Originally Posted by Interpreneur  Plus, you're going to soup kitchens when you have money in the bank? |
Actually no. As I mentioned in the last post, I've been eating at restaurants. I've volunteered at the soup kitchen before, and did eat there at that point to see what the food was like. It's not just homeless people that eat there. Construction workers come for lunch. They serve ~300 meals per day even though they only get about 5 grand in donations. Luckily they get plenty of food and it's normal for people to get seconds. Were I to start eating there regularly I'd want to give a small cash donation, enough to help each of us.
Also, sorry if it wasn't clear in my first post that I realize my situation is radically different from that of homeless people. As the end of my first post said, "I felt a lot of empathy for him, while at the same time knowing we're in very different stations of life. My current situation is a temporary one of choice, almost a luxury. I'm not sure I want to know what it's truly like to live without hope."
For me, visiting the local homeless shelters during poverty awareness week woke me up to the fact that I didn't need nearly as many material trappings as I had. It made me want to see how I'd do not living in an apartment with a place nearby to store a ton of stuff. What I'm doing now is more like camping than living a life of quiet desparation. If you saw me you likely wouldn't even suspect anything. Still, for me it's shown me new possibilities, which is a good deal of what I was going for.