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YOU NEVER KNOW A PERSONS STORY, WHAT THEY HAD TO DO, OR WHAT THEY DID NOT HAVE TO DO

WHEN YOU SEE A PERSON DOWN AND OUT, YOU NEVER KNOW A PERSONS STORY:
LOOKING AT A PERSON WHO IS DOWN ON HIS LUCK, DIRTY,FRAIL, AND HOMELESS,THE ON LOOKER DOES NOT KNOW HIS GLOEY:
  ITS SO EASY TO DRIVE BY SOMEONE ON A HOT DAY IN THE SUMMER, OR A COLD FREEZING DAY IN WINTER, AND LOOK DOWN ON A PERSON STANDING ON A CORNER LOOKING FOR A HAND OUT:
  BECAUSE YOU DONT KNOW THAT PERSONS LIFE, WHAT THEY HAVE BEEN THROUGH, WHERE THEY HAVE BEEN. WHAT THEY HAD TO DO, OR WHAT THEY DID, THAT THEY DID NOT HAVE TO DO, YOU DONT  KNOW WHAT YOU WOULD HAVE DONE , IF YOU WERE IN THERE SHOES,SO HOW CAN YOU PUT THEM DOWN, CRITICISE THEM IF YOU DONT KNOW WHAT THEY ARE ABOUT:
YOU NEVER KNOW A PERSONS STORY OR WHERE THEY HAVE BEEN:
MANY PEOPLE DRIVE BY IN AIR CONDITIONING IN THE SUMMER, OR A HEATED CAR IN THE COLD, AND JUST LOOK RIGHT THROUGH PEOPLE STRUGGLING WITH NO COMFORT OF HOME OF THERE OWN , AND ACT LIKE ITS NORMAL, AND ITS THERE CHOICE AND ACT LIKE ITS NOT THERE BUSINESS AND JUST CONVINCE THEMSELVES ITS OKAY AND JUST PRETEND;
  DONT LOOK DOWN ON A PERSON, ALREADY DOWN ON THERE LUCK:
  GIVE THEM A DRINK OF WATER, OR SOMETHING TO EAT IF YOU CANT SPARE A BUCK:
MANY FOLKS LIVING ON THE STREET, ARE IN NEED OF MEDICAL OR PSYCHIATRIC CARE:
JUST TREAt them with care, concern , compassion and kindness and dignity if at least that for a stranger you can spare:

14  february  2015:


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YOU NEVER KNOW A PERSONS STORY, WHAT THEY HAD TO DO, OR WHAT THEY DID NOT HAVE TO DO