Dear Diary,

Yesterday, on the 55 St. Laurent bus vers nord, a short scrappy type man was causing quite the commotion. He had a beard. Beat up jacket. Stained and strained everything else. He smelled. You could say he did not have a particular home to go to, yet he acted like he had to go somewhere by asking a young atttactive lady if this bus was going to Jarry park.

Then he sat down on a seat and put his head down on the next seat. He got bored of that after two seconds so he grabbed the bus pole and started humping to it and dancing erotically. He went up and down and even laid down. “Nice moves!” Said a jockish-hipster type man.

My stop was coming very shortly. Then I left before things got out of hand.

Then I went home and worked on music.

The end.

What a fright I got yesterday. My mac book pro made a whirring. My life! Made an appointment to get it fixed. Here I am.

Guy basically took my computer. I don’t know where he went. He could have stolen it. Oh well.

Oh he’s back. He said that the plastic part of my battery broke off and went into the fan.

I think I will make a necklace out of this.

So now we are running tests to fix this. Yay.

One set back gone and now off to making musiqia!!!

Here’s a first!

And…

And…

And…

I can’t believe even in this weather people still laugh at me for wearing ski goggles. Well, a frozen face hurts more than hurt feelings! But my feelings aren’t even hurt, so even better for me. And not so much for the frosty sheeps!

I think this situation is silly and educational enough to be in a children’s book.

 

(copied from a conversation I had with a friend)

“omg

u know what happened the other day?

in the metro, yesterday

at the metro platform, a homeless man asked each person individually for money, and a nice man said, ‘i dnt have money, but i can give you food,’

and he was like, “yea man, that would be so nice”

and then the nice man searched all over his tote bag and hands him a pastry nicely saran wrapped

the homeless man takes it and continues to hassle others for money

then he walked right by me and dropped the pastry

right in front of the nice man”

 

 

 

So how, may I ask, can one stay compassionate to the homeless when they see things like this? Not to generalize, and understanding that homelessness is a complex issue that will not be solved with sandwhiches. And no, a simple smile and hello won’t solve a guy’s drug addiction and overall mentality. Don’t fool yourself.  Maybe some people are hopeless, maybe some others are not. Maybe some need +$1,000,000,000 in therapy. Maybe some just need time. Maybe we need laws that are more fair to prevent people spiraling down like this. It all comes down to patience, resources, and more compassion. Also, many might not agree with me, but it is better to give your food and money to anti-poverty organizations like the United Way that have a professional staff that are better equipped to deal with this issue.