Many times in life we don’t understand why things happen the way they do. We don’t know why people die, why people get diseases, or why people end up in fixable situations. The saying God only puts you threw what you can handle, is one of the hardest lessons to learn. Many times we blame people for the situations they are in but we don’t ask them how they got there. I honestly believe no one who is homeless got there by choice, they were only uneducated, mistreated, or even misunderstood. Coming to this conclusion was not to give an excuse for the homeless, I have nearly been there. Many people speak on things of which they have not even the slightest of understanding, most have never lived in a house with no heat, water, or electricity for months at a time. People don’t realize things like this happen to the people next door. Back in two thousand and five my family was on the verge of eviction, we had lived in the same house for thirteen years and each year barely squeaking by on the mortgage. I remember two occasions in the last five years of that house when my mom could not pay the gas bill so we did not have a stove. Every thing we at for a month was cooked in the microwave. This was around the time when my grandmother lost her house and she had to move in with us. We already were not making it as it was now with my grandmother around it was even harder. At the age of thirty nine my grandmother was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia this is a mental illness when a person sees and hears things that are not there. My grandmother being the prideful women that she was did not clam this illness and would not take her median. All though it is unfortunate to say now my mother raising four people, neither of us were able to live on their own nor were capable of making any money. Times never got any better in that point in our lives the ultimate demise of eviction came around and we had to find some where to go. Fortunately for us my mother’s old college buddy had a house he was willing to let us rent, it was beautiful it was even better then the house we had just left everyone had their own room and all the electronics were brand new. There was no way we were going to be able to afford it, my mother and her friend agreed that she would make the same payments she had for the last house. My question was if we could not afford the last one what made them think this would be any different. Being a child of course I had no right to question in grown people business but I knew in my heart not to get attacked to this house we would not be there every long. All tough the reality was hard to accept I was right and he kicked us out the end of my junior year in high school. All I could think about was would I have to leave my high school my senior year and leave all my friends behind. Being a family of five there was no luck finding any one who could take us all in. My grandmother was moved into a home, my sister when to live with a friend, my younger brother when to live with is father and my mother moved in with a family friend. That left me with my aunt, we didn’t ever get along every well she was mean and I was bull headed. Even though the situation would be uncomfortable there was no other choice. One thing will never understand is how people can forget about family, on numerous occasions I remember sitting out side the school till around nine and ten o’clock at night hoping someone would remember to pick me up, then when I finally arrived home there being no dinner left because they house hold was used to running on four not five. Senior year was one of the most stressful and one of the most in lighting, that year my schedule was full of electives and I had chosen to take Personal Finance. Taking that course helped me to understand the way money truly works and who I am involved with the economy, we discussed everything from car insurance to, where our money would go if we were to die. This class that only lasted one semester had impacted my life. If everyone had the opportunity to obtain this knowledge we could not only help the economy of America, then America could use its numerous resources and help the world. One of the most amazing things that keeps the world rotating and working together is communication, the first form of communication came along with pictures evolving into the alphabet. The alphabet is the most essential technological development man kind has made in my opinion. The alphabet gave man the ability to document time and events with lead to government and civilizations. The depiction of life stiles threw word that could be passed down helped with the betterment of man, it would take the events of history from repeating its self. It enabled man to learn form his mistakes and pass his story on to his great grand children with out the complications of story telling. King, Queens, and Pharos emerged with rapped speed with the advancement of writing, the leaders from our past that formed our way of life and thinking as of today. We now not only can go back and read about ancient times we are able to go back and dig the history back into life. Biblical archeologist have benefited greatly for this archeology provided the unquestionable proof for those who did not agree with the theory of creation. God does know what we are going to do before we do it I believe he makes people the way they are to give them something to do in life and to see how long it will take them to come back to him. I believe he is just having a big laugh at all those people that try to define evolution and believe that they were formed by a fungus from a ancient rock.

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