Can you see what I see?

As you are walking down a street, does it occur to you who the person you've just passed is?

Do you wonder about who they are, what they're about, or even what they think and do?

I do.

Everyday a question comes soaring into my mind, and i stop to think, and slightly stare.
To every page of a book, there is a reason.
To every reason, there is a point.

To every person in this world belongs an identity, and a purpose.
Not all of us realize who we are, or even why we are here...we constantly long to find ourselves, and our personal reason to fulfill life.

It is such an unfortunate sight to see lost hopes,futures, and dreams of the one's who sadly and unknowingly ,wasted their life's purpose.We commonly know a simple percentage of these people as "Homeless Individuals", the ones who we see on the sidewalks of our metro streets. How did they end up that way? Why can't they find employment? I asked myself less sophisticated versions of the same questions, when i was just 8 years old. Until this day, the very same question remains within me. If i could, i would help every single person in need, but one person can only do so much to help the world.It's not just the homeless individuals either. What about the alcoholics' who spend their paycheck, or family's pity money on heavy liquor,and just alcohol in general to get their daily fix? I ask myself why do they do such a thing? What makes them want to drink? Then I put myself in their shoes. I try to imagine that possibly they could be drinking to cover up a rough patch in their life. To block out all negativity possible. Maybe as a child their father left their family behind, maybe their mother was a drug addict, or maybe they grew up watching their parents drink every night, engaging in alcoholism for the rest of their lives. It wasn't their choice, it was what they saw during the youth of their life, they shouldn't be to blame, oh definitely not. We are strongly immune to what we see our parents do.Then again, we have that second choice to say "No, I shouldn't do this.. I have seen what the outcomes can be, and I do not want this happening." Interestingly enough, we do have that small voice in the back of our heads that will tell us not to do something bad, but do we really listen? Most of the time, no. Two times out of five people can withstand the persuasion of alcohol, and that is great. What about every other person who picks up that bottle? What is the outcome of them drinking for one night, then surely addicted for the next day, and the next? Unfortunately we all must deal with alcohol sometime in our lives, and that is fine, but we must know when to say enough is enough, and save ourselves from an early addiction, or far worse-a premature death.

If we know our limits we will all be just fine. With my opinion stated, I feel that if people could control their alcohol limits, maybe they wouldn't fall into a crisis where they became quickly unemployed, losing their home, their spouse and everything else held to them so dearly. I imagine that being a top reason for homeless men and women worldwide. It does not just stop with alcohol though. Drugs, are also a very popular issue among young men and women. Once they stat young, it will follow them to their adulthood, and by then addiction will have already taken it's course. Alcohol and drugs are pricey depending on exactly what kind you purchase, and also is why people run out of money. The more drugs and alcohol they have, the more negativity and other things they can block out by getting drunk,and high, and the more often they do that, the more money wasted.The cycle goes on and on until the situation is unbearable, and until their money runs out,and until they let this way of life consume them. As sad as it is, it is true.

When young teens get caught up into this scene, their parents may definitely disapprove, and if it gets out of hand, the parents may find them in the position to give up on their daughter/son and tell them to move out. As much as it hurts the teen, it hurts the parents much more to see their child go through something they feel they might need professional help for. Some teen girls may find themselves in the position of having no where to go, no money on hand, nothing in sight. So they walk right into the danger zone where they look upon it as their only option.-Prostitution. Yes, as easy as it may seem to get quick cash and hardly no effort, (well some of course), they don't realize just how dangerous it really is. Getting into a car with an unknown man, at an unsafe time of night, in an unfamiliar part of the city they've never seen before is all very frightening. But of course as they put on their red lipstick, hack up their skirt a bit higher, they suck up their worries and concerns, and conform to the fact that they must try to earn as much money as they can. As once stated by Tears For Fears' Gary Jules..."It's a mad world..."