Every blogger across the world that is registered with Blog Action Day writes about a designated topic specific to that day in that year. Every blogger registered will write about poverty today.
These are my thoughts on poverty in support of this awesome outreach.
Poverty. At school I see poverty every day. Not with the students or those teaching them, but with many of the residents in Ann Arbor. The number of homeless people is only growing here with the economic downturn and the fact that costs are doing nothing but rising. I only wish that it weren't this way. I feel for the men that sit with their hat on the ground asking "please spare some change, ma'am" and all i can reply is "i'm sorry, i don't have any" which is the truth. In this consumer-driven world and my fear of misplacing things, all I carry on me is my drivers license and my credit card. I do not carry cash. In this town, I do not need it...cash you cannot get back if it is stolen, whereas I can quickly freeze my credit card if it is taken away from me. I used to carry my debit card but realized that it comes straight out of my account, so it would be like cash if it was stolen from me. Okay, enough about me. Back to poverty.
I feel badly that I never have any change to give, but is that going to make me start carrying around change just so I can give the homeless some...probably not. I don't know. I've never really thought of it like this before. The thought has never crossed my mind to begin carrying change so I would have some to give away. That a handful of dimes and nickels would help some individual get through his or her day. I never considered it like that.
Technically, I didn't quite finish my writing on the 15th. Oh well. I am glad that you enjoyed my short input on poverty. I think I will revisit this topic later.
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