Glamorizing homelessness

[Starflowerpower87]

Lately I’ve been dreaming of running away. It’s no fun being on medications I want to go off. I dream of running away and sleeping in a shelter so I don’t have to deal with my day to day responsibilities. I’m burnt out. Am I glamorizing homelessness? I look at alternative lifestyles like crust punk, where they look homeless and they look so free.

 

[tree]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crust_punk
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Age_travellers

 

[Yeshuasdaughter]

The average woman, within 48 hours of becoming homeless, is raped.

 

[Yeshuasdaughter]

Shelter living:

Bedbugs, roaches, and mostly rice for every meal. Cornstarch filler in all the food.

Tweaker fights. Getting beat up repeatedly, by said tweakers, because you looked in their general direction.

The worst kinds of men will corner you on the street and try to assault you, all the time. ALL THE TIME.

Did I mention the phrase "All the time."?

Never having a private bedroom or private bathroom. Toilet covered in all kinds of fun things. If you tell on someone for being inappropriate, you are now a snitch, and will be assaulted.

Getting kicked out at 7am, and standing in a long line at sunset, to get back in the building.

If you spend one night out of the shelter, you are not admitted back.

It's not bunkbeds. Often it's a flat gym mat on a muddy linoleum floor.

 

[Forest Cat]

Remember that shelters are full of people with problems and they are not cozy places. You will have to deal with a lot of crap. You could be jumping out of the frying pan and into the fire if you run away. There's nothing glamorous about homelessness or shelters. Shelters don't have enough funding, they are usually crowded these days and I don't think it will make things better for you at all.

 

[Vindiesel]

Lately I’ve been dreaming of running away. It’s no fun being on medications I want to go off. I dream of running away and sleeping in a shelter so I don’t have to deal with my day to day responsibilities. I’m burnt out. Am I glamorizing homelessness? I look at alternative lifestyles like crust punk, where they look homeless and they look so free.

Do it...start up a youtube channel and document it

 

[Vindiesel]

This is terrible advice. You really should not advice people to run away and live in a shelter. I think shelters these days are worse than ever before because the authorities do nothing to help people. And for women it's just dangerous, people prey on women in shelters.

People want to see the farthest places from the average lifestyle...Im sure there is a entertainment market for this regardless of the potential risks.

Instead of shows like "wife swap" they could do "lifestyle swap" where a homeless person stays in your house for 1 week and you get the shopping cart/tent they live with on the streets. Damn now to think about it Im going to shark tank with this idea.

 

[Gerontius]

Do it...start up a youtube channel and document it

Why do I think you'd be the kind of person to yell "do a flip" at someone fixing to jump from a bridge?

Either help or don't engage. In the meantime lose the school shooter attitude and grow up.

 

[Vindiesel]

Grow up, @Vindiesel

And be thankful that your life has been so sheltered and protected.

I have lived a rather protected life due to where I live relatively not like it couldn't be shattered....Sheltered do you mean I have lived in a house/apt for all of my life or do you think I have a narrow world view based off of a homeless comment?

If you truly open your eyes to the entertainment sector people are looking for the minority of cultures or the extreme's on either side of the coin. People could careless about "average people." Thats why a story of homelessness regardless if it was entertainment or document oriented would open a lot of peoples eyes.

 

[Vindiesel]

Why do I think you'd be the kind of person to yell "do a flip" at someone fixing to jump from a bridge?

Either help or don't engage. In the meantime lose the school shooter attitude and grow up.

You could just ignore me... It was truly a flippant joke and has nothing to do with school shooters or bridge jumping those aren't even relevant topics. I'll butt out that's fine.

 

[Gerontius]

I have lived a rather protected life due to where I live relatively not like it couldn't be shattered....Sheltered do you mean I have lived in a house/apt for all of my life or do you think I have a narrow world view based off of a homeless comment?

If you truly open your eyes to the entertainment sector people are looking for the minority of cultures or the extreme's on either side of the coin. People could careless about "average people." Thats why a story of homelessness regardless if it was entertainment or document oriented would open a lot of peoples eyes.

This thread was someone going through a hard time, and you're analyzing it for goddamn entertainment potential?

 

[Gerontius]

You could just ignore me... I was truly a flippant joke and has nothing to do with school shooters or bridge jumping those arent even relevant topics.

Grow up or shut up, and, I think, you could do both for now.

 

[Vindiesel]

This thread was someone going through a hard time, and you're analyzing it for goddamn entertainment potential?

True point....Ill leave... Starflowerpower87 disregard my comments

 

[Rodafina]

@Starflowerpower87

It’s a good question to ask. Yes, you are definitely glamorizing homelessness. It’s okay that you are doing it, but be aware that that is definitely what is happening here.

The freedoms you are looking for are not part of what homelessness is. You will still have the same troubles with your mind, but you will be in an extremely vulnerable and unsafe situation, with more unknowns than you can imagine right now.

Running away from your troubles unfortunately and sadly does not work. Running away from your troubles into an extremely precarious situation will make things so much worse. People who are free and living without a permanent home have the luxury of a substantial amount of financial support from somewhere. Consider your choices carefully, and start to understand what homelessness truly is like. Perhaps reading stories of those who have been living that way. There is no glamour there. There is danger, there is hardship, loneliness, and sadness. And you will only feel those terrible things if you survive.

Keep breathing and taking things one moment at a time. It’s important to think of other ways to tackle the challenges that are crushing you.

 

[mysterionz]

Do it...start up a youtube channel and document it

No… just no

 

[mysterionz]

The average woman, within 48 hours of becoming homeless, is raped.

Continuing this statistic from Gov1.

Research from the United Kingdom shows that the homeless experience harassment nearly every day they live on the streets:

• More than one in three have been deliberately hit, kicked or experienced some other form of violence while homeless
• 34% have had things thrown at them
• 9% have been urinated on while homeless
• 48% have been intimidated or threatened with violence while homeless
• 59% have been verbally abused or harassed

Harassment is just the tip of the iceberg; abuse can be increasingly physical with damaging results.

 

[Gerontius]

I was within a hair of going full homeless guy but have had better results changing my surroundings. See what you can do.

I believe you can do this.

 

[tree]

True point....Ill leave... Starflowerpower87 disregard my comments

Would have been very useful to have said something like
'don't take this seriously, but it really would be a successful reality series'

Or even jk,
for "just kidding."

 

[Xinyta]

I wouldn't advise destroying your life like that, @Starflowerpower87

With homelessness increasing due to a number of factors, you are going to expose yourself to much worse than you already have.

 

[Vindiesel]

Would have been very useful to have said something like
'don't take this seriously, but it really would be a successful reality series'

Or even jk,
for "just kidding."

Could have...still would of netted the same result potentially. Taking advice from strangers online at the end of the day is up to you to determine what is of value to you or not.