After having spent over a week eating nothing but oatmeal and two meals of Hamburger Helper, I finally was able to get to the store today to buy some food and had some time tonight to make a good dinner. I decided to make the last package of steak we had that my parents gave to us and some homemade oven fries. I must say, it feel so good to have a tasty meal in my stomach and to have eaten real food. After I was finished my meal looked like this (only with added green beans which were not on my plate yet when I took the picture).
Looks good, right?
Yet, as good as this meal was, I ate it with a side of guilt tonight. Yesterday, I brought the garbage out to the dumpster behind our apartment and I noticed that there was a bag that had been ripped open and some of the food stuff from inside it had been pulled out. Now, at first I thought it could have been an animal but the only thing that would have been able to make a rip like that was a raccoon or a human and I don't think there's all that high of a population of raccoons in the middle of Lincoln. Also, there are a lot of homeless people in my neighborhood. I feel so awful for the people who did it though. To have to resort to eating out of the garbage is just sad and while for some people its due to drugs that they end up on the street, for a lot its just they fall onto a lot of bad luck. However, there is not much I can do for them and I accept that but it does every once in a while make me feel bad and guilty for not being able to do anything. I just hope that wherever you are when you are reading this, you will take a moment to thank God for your good fortune, to have food, clothes, and shelter and that you will remember those that do not. They are much closer than you would think.
Until tomorrow,
-EBS
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