The Human Experience Page #2

but it'll have to do.

Hope it's a warm night.

This is definitely

a different experience.

We're in a community

with all these guys,

With all these

homeless men

Sleeping in cardboard boxes.

And, you know,

it's like,

You don't know

where they're coming from,

So you have

to be careful.

You don't know

who you're sleeping next to.

I know the streets

of new york city,

But to actually sleep

Out in the streets

of new york city

Is a whole different experience.

You learn a lot

when you travel.

You learn how people live.

Everyone survives differently.

I grew up

in a very abusive house.

And my dad

was an alcoholic...

A drug addict.

He was very abusive to me

and to my two older brothers

And my mom as well.

I was kind of a...

I was a surprise baby.

I was a surprise.

I wasn't intended.

You know, my mom

didn't plan on me.

I wasn't a planned baby.

I did have my fun times

as a kid, you know?

I wasn't close to my father,

But I do look back,

and I say to myself,

You know, "he did...

there was good times."

July 4th was, like,

my dad's day.

That was his day.

He would get, like,

the best fireworks,

And the whole block

would be involved.

And we'd light fireworks,

And it would go on

for hours.

It'd be from...

as soon as that sun went down,

Just start lighting fireworks,

you know?

Everyone loved

my dad for that.

There'd be a firecracker belt,

And it'd just stretch out

from one end of the street

All the way down

to the other.

And it was just great,

you know?

That was...

I look at those.

You know,

I look at those memories.

I look at those moments.

Everyone lives differently.

When you go somewhere

out of your own comfort zone,

Out of your own realm,

And you enter someone else's,

That's learning.

It's going to be a cold one,

so dress warm.

This is the kind of weather

That makes you want to stay home.

There we were.

We were taking part

of that lifestyle.

Your whole perspective changes.

I mean, you're there.

You're amongst the people.

We're sleeping with maybe seven

others guys in cardboard boxes.

And you're taking part of that

feeling of being homeless.

You know,

it was a wild trip.

# sweetly sleeping

in an empty street #

# as if the city

was meant for me #

God has a purpose

for us all.

If he didn't have

a purpose for me,

I would've been gone

a long time ago.

I really believe that.

I've been in situations

where I should've been shot,

Ran over, overdosed.

I should've had aids,

but I never caught it.

I was exposed to it

I don't know how many times,

Sexually.

But god,

for some reason,

Has got some kind of purpose.

He's got something for me to do.

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