Anyone Who Feels Unappreciated is At Risk

Have you ever noticed someone who seems to stay on the sidelines of everything never taking part in the fun?

Maybe you are a school teacher and observe both those who take charge in any situation and have no difficulty expressing their opinion....

Yet at the same time a classmate the same age is quiet, shy and possibly timid or afraid to interact with the crowd.

What about the husband who works very hard to earn a pay check to provide his wife and children's needs...
Pay the mortgage, electric and gas bills, telephone now days Internet Service...and if you travel for your work you may have no choice but have cell phones as well....

What about the housewife and mother who cleans house changes diapers, and follows her toddlers all day long protecting them from dangers such as electric sockets, the hot water heater hidden in the bottom kitchen cabinet.

Does she recognize the stress he endures all day to bring home a loaf of bread and at today's prices maybe some peanut butter to spread on it?

Well what happens when the body works till it is tattered yet has not earned enough to pay the bills and to eat healthy and to see a doctor when one gets a strep throat, or a dentist for a tooth ache.

What happens when  folks work hard yet cannot afford to raise their family in a safe neighborhood.

Such frustrations can drive many to desperate measures or make poor choices that they otherwise would have never considered.

As a child, I myself when brought to the Rex Mardi Gras Parade by my mother with my two younger brothers...observed something that not only shocked me but very much upset me.

I saw a very dirty homeless man who looked very very hungry as if he had not eaten for days or even a week...ask for a Lucky Dog.

No one would buy him a hot dog, the vendor was not one who had what is known as "Southern Hospitality".

He like no one else showed him compassion.

And while his head was turned this homeless man snitched a Lucky Dog for himself and the vendor whistled for a policeman who beat this poor hungry homeless man with his billy-club and arrested him....
placed him in a metal box and drove him off.

Very upsetting for me under ten years old to watch....and what did my mother say:  "That's what you'll get too if you break the law!"

Not all behind bars are hardened criminals, some simply lacked guidance, some had no fathers or their fathers were absent and some in spite of both mother and father present and active in their lives...

Like the student who in the classroom with other children who remained on the side lines because he was either pressed out by the others who did not like him...or

The one who is shy and lacks self esteem...you can find many of these in jails and prisons across our great United States of America who were unable to learn what they needed to know to earn and purchase a Lucky Dog of their own...

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