How often do you lend a hand to those in need of help? One article I read about a women helping a homeless man with his poems made me want to relate to a time in my life. Most people on the average day walk past those in need of help they never do anything to help them in their struggle. Every time I bring this up I always get the "It's their fault, they do this to themselves response" but in reality some of these people have been on their own since before they were even capable of providing for them selves. When I went to school out in San Francisco for a year I was able to witness first hand the terrible homeless rate that San Francisco is infamously known for. There we're blocks after blocks where communities of homeless people would rest in the streets commonly known as the "tenderloin". I never had to worry about going through the tenderloin when I was going to school out there, but everyday I went to class I saw the same man. A man who would always, and I mean always smile. I would walk past him and speak to him as if he was a friend and when I could I would always give him extra food and change I would have. I always wondered what could make him smile while he was going through hell everyday without the certainty of having anything to eat or anybody to be there for him. Going through my miserable months in San Francisco, dealing with depression on top of a huge break up, That man I would always see in the streets made me see that not everything in life has to be miserable. Even when you think you've lost everything there is always something to be thankful for, and that is having life everyday with the opportunity to make the best of it. I learned one of the biggest lessons ever during the most difficult time of my life from a man who had nothing. It doesn't matter who you are or where you come from, anyone can make a difference in someone's life.