My life-changing experiment

I grew up in a small suburb of Houston called Sugar Land; a place referred to by me and my friends as "the bubble". Everyday necessities such as food and shelter were things I took for granted.  Once I graduated High School and signed up for classes at the University of Houston, I figured it was time to get out of the bubble and move closer to my new school.  My life in the big city was drastically different from the suburban life I was accustomed to.  There were many differences between the suburbs and the city, but the main one was the amount of people living on the streets.  Sure I had seen homeless folk before, but was always under the impression that it was due to bad choices they had made in their life, which usually had something to do with drugs.  Living on my own, I began to notice women, men, children, elderly, and veterans forced to live life on the streets.  I feel that these people need a lot of help in which they are not getting.  I have decided to spend one day each week with a different homeless person.  I want to hear their stories and experience life from a whole different view point.  By doing do, I hope to grasp a better understanding of life and I am sure I will learn lessons in which I will never forget.  Our society constantly puts homeless people down, and by reaching out to them I hope to be an outlet in which their voice can be heard.