Some Races Don't Choose Homelessness

There are many reasons for homelessness. It’s bad choices we made when we had money. It can be the desire to be independent from mom and dad, so that we can drink or inhale and exhale what we want, which ends up in the inability to live in the compromised space.

What is that? Family. It is a compromise and one of the leading causes of homelessness. Some people end up on the street, sleeping under bridges or bus shelters because of emotional and physical fire at home. Some girls decide to be sex workers because mothers turn a blind eye to sexual abuse by stepfathers or relatives. 

All families have untold painful stories, that make drivers relish evening bumper to bumper traffic. Just sitting in the car, delaying the inevitable, facing the music at home.

Some people take out the dog to avoid confrontation. Others kill time in coffee shops and libraries. They dread being told time and time again, how evil Canadian women are because of how they dress, something they knew before choosing to emigrate.

Working out at the gym is an escape hatch for many people. What leads to leaving home is personal and a culmination of many things, but it is the last option. Some people didn’t have a choice. They were nudged out or kicked out.

There are always two sides of the story. Homelessness is the end product of failure to bring them together in some compromise.

By: Nonqaba waka Msimang.