By Lars Eighner
I owe the title of this one to my man Lars.
Let's start off with a little bit of who I am. I'm a 20 year old student at Portland Community College, I am taking Biology 101 and Writing Composition 121.
My first assignment in WR121 is all it took to open my eyes, and I'm hoping this blog will have the same effects on you as this story did me.
I takes place in a city, a city large enough to house the homeless. But not just the homeless, the homed as well.
Lars starts off with a mediocre job with a government agency. For some un-named reason he leaves the company and starts new. He begins dumpster diving a year before he becomes homeless, and realizes the day-to-day things can be found in dumpsters, such as bedding, books, food, medicine, toilet paper, clothes and even change - sometimes amounting to dollars. Through his journey to homelessness he becomes acquainted to his surroundings and learns where the most profitable dumpsters are. He even mentions a dumpster behind this pizza place that throws out whole pizza's at night due to late delivery or too many olives. He goes on about this place and tells that when the management started catching on to him taking there pizza's after they threw them out, they started to smother them in jalapenos. SERIOUSLY?!? A pizza company would spend even more money putting a ridiculous amount of jalapenos on a pizza rather than doing a good deed and giving it to the homeless anyway? How wasteful!
Now humans, here is what scares me most. If in largely populated areas, we can have a certain percentage of that population living strictly off what we are throwing away, WHAT ARE WE DOING WRONG!?!?!? Why can we have hundreds and in some city's upwards of 2,000 homeless people living free of charge off our trash? Please, it only takes one good decision after another to start a change.
If everyone who reads this, spends as much time as they did reading it, into something positive for our environment, our future, then this world, our tomorrow, will most definitely be a brighter day.
