Eddy and Sam

Today I my project sponsor introduced me to two older gentlemen. Eddy and Sam told me how the average person perceives homeless people. They are trained to believe that they are drunks, crazy, pedophiles, druggies or all of these things.  “Yo dad probably use to tell you not to mess with that strange man at the bus stop didn’t he?”, said Sam with a little bit of edge in his voice to emphasize his point.

Eddy picked up the conversation quickly describing to us what it was like for him to be at the top but taking a roller coaster ride to the bottom.  Eddy worked for various private owned companies whose mission was to find natural resources. He had the position as a chief director and manager for many of these companies. With this he was blessed to travel all of the continents and had the opportunity to get duel citizenships in different countries. Hearing this man talk was like looking into a mirror- here I was trying to get where Eddy has already been with my private school education, traveled the world and fortunate enough to have parents who are hard workers.