Day 7
"Every choice has a consequence," Satan told me this afternoon during a sit-down chat at a coffee shop.
This afternoon, I interviewed Satan. It was unexpected but still fun. He wasn't the devil incarnate but a man who had been on the street for eleven years. He used to be a Satanist street preacher even thought he had grown up in the Mormon faith. His story was different from the other people I have interviewed. His real name is Sam but to be honest, Satan is just a lot catchier. You kept reading, didn't you? He had lead a pretty nice life; bouncing around the world with his military family, experiencing things that other men twice his age still dream about. Boredom had driven him to the street. Boredom let him to drugs and fights, a violent cycle that would take him years to recover from.
People are driven to the streets for various reasons; abuse, abandonment, boredom, economic issues. Each story is unique to the person telling it. The sheer amount of people on the street is saddening. Broken lives are becoming even more shattered as lives take turns for the worse with every bad choice that is made.
This isn't going to end with another "save the homeless" plea. Instead, I want you to think about the choices that you are making. They will have consequences. Are you willing to live with them? Where will they lead you? The chances are that you won't end up on the street but you will end up miles away from where you once dreamed you would be. So please, think before you act.
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