Saturday like no other

Well how much did I learn this weekend!! ?   If I said I learnt more about myself and humanity than I ever have before it would be an understatement.   I had arranged to meet some friends in a bar for a few drinks and during the evening I popped out to have a smoke and got talking to a girl while outside. While we where talking a homeless person approached us and asked for a cigarette and we got chatting and to cut a long story short we ended up walking with her to a stairwell in the multi story car park where she ''lived''.   There we met three other homeless people, one being only 15. We talked about how they ended up homeless and there stories where heartbreaking, and the girl I was with became quite upset.   One had been in the army and when he left he just couldn't cope with normal life and was an alcoholic who had 6 months left to live, he was 37   The other two story's are why I am writing this on a divorce site,   First the male, he was 48 and had been on the streets for about 3 years, and when I asked him how he had end up here, his answer was '' I got divorced'' It turned out that his wife had, had an affair and then he suffered from depression over it and then lost his job and house and then also turned to drink.   The female, Miranda, She was abused both physically and mentally by her husband and her husband also used to hit the children which she has now lost and I cannot tell you how upset she was when she was telling us this. It was awful it really was.   We spoke to them for about an hour and then asked if they had eaten at all which they said no to, so myself and the girl I had met walked around the town and due to the time it took us quite a while to find somewhere open but we found somewhere open and returned with a bag of food and some drink for them.   When we opened the door into the stairwell they where all huddled together asleep on the floor and as I put the bag down one woke up and then woke up the others with the words ''wake up, they have come back''   I handed them all some hot food and the older man was crying when he took it and said '' I never knew people like you really existed''    That has to be the best thing any person has ever said to me.   We sat and chatted for about another 3 hours, we learnt more about there life, the way they are forgotten about, the humiliation they feel when they have to beg for food, and how people normally treat them.   If only Wiki was around for them when they needed it most, but more importantly how many people has and will Wiki save from this life?   Next time you see a '' homeless person '' think how lucky you have been,   We all have a few life changing experiences and this was without doubt one for me.