In this blog post I will focus only on the highs and lows of my experiences today, rather than more minute details of today. Throughout the day, many of my withstanding beliefs and opinions were reaffirmed, but with new and innovative explanations or reasoning.
At our habitat build, we worked on a foreclosed home donated to Habitat for Humanity by Bank of America. This home was a rebuild and unfortunately there was only a prospective owner, so we did not get to interact with whomever we were helping to repair the house for. That aside, it was a blat to be given free reign with a hammer and complete demolition of a kitchen as the goal. Shree and myself found ourselves almost grossly satisfied with the art of destruction that we could call our own. I'd say this was definitely the highlight of my time at the Habitat build today.
Heading to the Homeless Council headed by G.W., I was prepared to receive the same experience I had at the previous Immersion I had been on. What made this time different and just as valuable as the first was the presence and story told by Darrel, who was not there the first St. Pete Immersion I went on. I really appreciated just how honest this man was about what had spurred his current situation. He also struck a personal chord within me when he expressed how he wished he could've seen the National Championship game, while the boys were able to watch it in a nice hotel room not aware of people such as Darrel, and what they would be doing while we were having fun. This was a shocking realization for me to come to.
In all, today taught me much about just how much your perception, attitude and circumstances direct your path in life. Homelessness is not a choice, but rather the mixture of simple bad luck, bad choices, and failures of modern society to prevent these.
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