RIP Wayne 'Mousey' Perry

A homeless man was murdered by a snotty teenage boy this week. it is really upsetting. i am kind of really sensitive about it given my strong feelings about homelessness.

days prior to his death, he was quoted in the age: You have to sleep with one eye open because you don't know who's going to bash you or stab you or rob you.

His murderer was high on cannabis. apparently onlookers were taking selfies with the blood splatters from the murder scene. haha im not even surprised.

you know, we look at the homeless with such disdain. that they cant get their life in order, that they let their drug addiction get to them, that they cant 'get over' their mental illness as if they are a whole separate category in the human race. but we are not that different from them. i dont understand how we are so disgusted by the homeless. (im a clean freak btw and i manage fine). people always get really confused and disgusted when homeless actively ask for money. mate, thats survival. i cant deny that it is bothersome and awkward to have a smelly man randomly ask you for money, but empathize. becuase if you fucking want them to all grovel into a hole and hide themselves from society, they will rot and die. and if you think homelessness is punishable by death, youre unintelligent.

i just dont get it at all. there are people with insides ugly as fuck but they have a home and people who will weep for them. i guess they could grow up and lose all that support and end up on the streets themselves. there are people homeless becuase they flee domestic abuse, people in debt, people who lack proper support for their drug addictions, people who lose everything. we think they are monsters, but tbh i dont think theyve got the energy or the time. all theyre doing is surviving. we are the monsters for looking at the scene with such nonchalance and judging. always judging, i guess becuase we can afford to. im not saying its a crime to judge, its in our nature, but sometimes we have to realise that our judgement shouldnt always guide our behavior.
Mousey shared his makeshift home with fellow homeless people and yet we think before we share a single dollar with them. having too much makes us blind to what it would feel like to have nothing. this isnt even giving back to the community, or charity work or anything. its fucking helping another in need. its like seeing someone dying on the street. theyre fucking starving and freezing to death and we go nah, gonna get drunk instead. i dont understand how we, educated and healthy, do not see this as heartless and chillingly disturbing.


There isnt a solution to homelessness and i know that. you cant prevent people from falling off the tracks or losing stability in their life. there are obviously people of power, and people without which is natural. and i do realise that centrelink gives payments as do passerbys on the street. i dont think money is what the homeless need. thats just a short answer. they probably make enough per day to feed their stomach. but we need more services. more homeless shelters, more help for those at risk of homelessness. more 'drug help'. quitting drugs isnt easy. quitting drinking isnt easy. you cant just go cold turkey on it or chuck on a nicorette patch. it could even be quite dangerous.
there are many people who want to quit. and when they take the first step ie. ask to be on the methadone program, they often get turned down because slots are full. its a lifelong process quitting drugs and people need to be on this shit to curb the cravings and physical withdrawl symptoms. a lot of people fail to see it as a health condition, and see it more as a bad decision that they're paying for. and it is. i dont condone drug use, but flushing out users onto the streets isnt the answer.
i had a man tell me how he went from homeless fighting drug addictions to a leader in counsel groups to help people who are going through what he went through. these are the people worth being compassionate for.

and we cant expect them to just go find a job so damn easy without a shower and proper address. who the fucks gonna hire them? objectively speaking, if i could choose between a homeless stinky man whos probably not gonna rock up to work one day and a fresh out of school random chick, id go with the chick.

i want to volunteer to help. but im not sure if i can emotionally handle it. id rather open my homeless shelter first. one day. i hvaent forgotten my promise.

i dont realy know what was the point of thise post or why i keep talking about this shit. massive brain block everytime i do. you know when something seems so OBVIOUS to you but no one else seems to see it? thats what i feel. like, you probably think im some self entitled incoherent bitch but youre wrong, im just upset. and i do know there are like minded people. but when you hear about a teenage rich cunt stabbing a defenseless homeless who turns out to be a gentlehearted soul, it provokes you.