Appreciate

I thought today I would write about something that just made me even step back and think how lucky I was. You see I just had bad timing with many things happening at once and I had 5 surgeries in 6 weeks. Then needing weeks to recover. Money hitting an all time low and sitting in my wheelchair thinking if I wasn't smart enough to cover my rent right now I would have ended up homeless again. 

That's a lesson I never want to experience again. But it made it so easy to see how hard times can so quickly turn someone's life around. Think about this for a moment, How long could you go without earning money before you yourself get into trouble?

For a lot of people it's a matter of weeks or few months.

I was so looking forward to returning back to selling The Big Issue magazines because yes I needed money badly and I still appreciated that I still could and get my life back towards on track.

Today made me so grateful in a way that I had been homeless in the past and now really look for things that can go wrong to cause homeless again. To be honest this makes me want to help homeless people that much more because let's face it, it could happen to anyone just because they had a hard run at life all at once. 

So maybe don't judge someone that is hitting hard times because we may not know what happened to put them there.

This is one reason I brought in "A pie and coke" it means asking a homeless or someone in need if they would like to have lunch with you and just shut up and listen to their story. Sometimes it's can be simple things that helps them get back on their feet for example having a friend that believes in them and offers advice and a kind ear.

I know I have helped many just sitting and having lunch with someone down on their luck and I hope I never stop trying because I have had many success stories.

Thank you for reading my blog and I hope you have a great day.
Grant the polite Guy

Christmas Morning

I would like to start this post by saying that when I write these it's not meant to say I better then anyone because I tend to put a lot of time towards helping people but to say I it's sometimes not hard to make or be the difference and if I can do it then maybe you could too. But in saying that I very much believe people coming together can make wonders happen just look at the Signal Flare BBQ's (Facebook) still happening after a lot of friends and I got together to help.

This post is about my Christmas Day. 

A few days before Christmas I worked and a few people gave me a gift card and some tips and I knew exactly what to do with it. The day before Christmas I went to Coles and bought a bag of sausages and a loaf of bread all excited for Christmas morning.

Christmas morning came and jumped on my scooter and went down to the Wynnum waterway where I knew there was homeless and started going around saying "I didn't have anyone to share Christmas with and would they like to join me" Not saying "Hey your homeless here I have food for you" I think some people make homeless feel worst trying to help by the way things are worded.

I honestly was shocked that 23 homeless people joined me to enjoy time together and sausages on bread. Yes I know I forgot the sauce haha But it was the sitting and just listening to their stories and of course seeing the smiles that made it more then worth while.

I am sad to say we ran out of sausages quickly as I only bought so many but they stay and just chatted. No one had anywhere to go. It was not long before someone (Not me) started the Christmas song which was not good at all for me because I was really bad at singing but I did. haha

No one cared I couldn't sing well and to be honest most of them couldn't either haha But I was there about 4 hours and I must say for the cost of some sausages and bread plus a little bit of time I had one of the best Christmas day I have had in many years. I know I made friends that day and yes I say hi and chat when I see them. 

Yes they are "Homeless People" but if you take the word "Homeless" away then they are "People" just like you and I because they are someone's Mother, Father, Brother, Sister, Uncle, Aunty or even a Cousin. 

I feel the only mistake I made with doing this, well apart from not have sauce is waiting till Christmas day because Christmas day didn't make this great, Going down there did with that bag of sausages and an open heart.

I hope you enjoyed my writing. 
I hope you have a great day, Thank you for reading.
Grant the Polite Guy

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