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Food, beer, and weed. Not necessarily in that order. We can provide for ourselves pretty well. But those three definitely help with day to day life quality.
Lots of alcoholism in the homeless community. Happy to give a little weed though
Can't fucking believe someone downvoted us for speaking our mind. No worries, I'm used to it. Get a lot worse on the street, just bizarre how disconnected from reality some people are.
Yeah, lots of alcoholics. I mean lots of drugs overall. A lot of the times it's the reason we become homeless. A lot of the rest of the time we become addicts after becoming homeless. You hang out with the same people day in day out, and it becomes like kind of a fraternity. In some weird way it's more honest than "housed society". It's like, it reminded me a lot of the army in a way. You're constantly on your feet, constantly working, constantly hustling, constantly hungry, constantly fighting, constantly on edge, right? And just like in the army you quickly grow tight knit connections with people, because you go through the same fucking struggle every day, not necessarily together, but sometimes, but in any case, at the end of the day, there's no pretention, there's no grandstanding, we're all a bunch of dirty old bums scrounging for food in trash cans, there's no room for formalities if you catch my drift.
You ever been homeless? It's... A humbling experience. A valuable one. Sure as fuck makes you appreciate everything around you a lot more, and sure as fuck makes you realize just how little you actually need to survive, and how bountiful society actually is, and how fighting for survival awakes deep primal instincts in you that you didn't know you had.
Sorry for rambling, just happened I suppose. Peace.