Creative Writing: Homeless Home

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On New Year's Eve, I saw a homeless man sleeping at the station. Around the station, it was crowded with people, and they walked past him briskly. Nobody noticed him. I thought I also would pass him by, but I felt sad to think of him. Though tomorrow is New Year's Day, he has nothing to eat. I couldn’t leave him like this. So I bought a rice ball and hot corn soup at a convenience store. I thought I would receive Otoshidama,New Year’s gifts of money. I had the guts to say to him,“Happy New Year!”and gave them. Then he smiled with no teeth and said to me,“dear young lady, that's very kind of you. Thank God for hot food! Happy New Year, too.”I thought it had been a good deed to hand foods for him. I was glad to see his smiley face. I felt this …show more content…

It is children volunteers’ activity serves hot meals for home- less people at night in winter. Do you know how many homeless people freeze to death every winter? About 200 do. First, it seemed to me that homeless people were scary. Later I found they aren’t. Probably you think talking to them is horrible, but most of them are gentle. They only have lost their jobs. There is a possibility anyone could be homeless. Although they don’t harm us, they have been assaulted by heartless teenagers and are always under the threat of their attack. This had me start thinking about what I can do for them. One day I came across an interesting application by chance. It is “Share The Meal”. It is the first application against global hunger, and it provides food for starving children. All you have to do is donate 60 yen by clicking a button on your smartphone. It follows that you can feed one child living in dire conditions for a day. Once I tried it, I could receive a message from a little girl, Remus in a Syrian refugee camp with a picture. I was happy to be able to support such a lovely girl. When I feel the temptation to eat sweets, I deny myself them and give a present of a meal to refugee children in camps by one click. It results in avoiding their starvation and my dieting at the same time. Suddenly I found that I can support children in Syrian refugee camps by means of the application, but I don’t

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