Homelessness: Understanding it/Judging it

--Who of us can understand homelessness unless you've been out there and lived it? --Who can understand how that feels? --Who can understand how they got there? Truly. --Who can understand what it's like to not be sure where you're going to sleep that night? --Who of us can understand what it's like to not know where your next meal is coming from? --Who of us understands what it's like to not quite be sure if you're going to be safe, wherever you're going--where you have to go? --Who of us understands what it's like to not be sure if some young person or group is going to beat you up just because you're homeless? --Who of us understands the hostility so many people in society feel toward homelessness and the homeless--and that some of us outwardly show? It seems a lot of us--most?--at least have opinions about homelessness if we don't out-and-out judge it and/or judge the homeless and too frequently we end up with both strong and negative views of both the homeless and homelessness. This thought occurred to me today at a local Quik Trip as there was a homeless person there. It made me think.