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Reflexive Statement

Sitting on a torn bus seat with music playing a little too loud while watching the world pass by is, for the most part, a warm memory for me. I went to a high school that was across town from where I lived. It was an hour and half ride that stopped every few blocks to collect one or two sleep deprived kids. We took the same route every day, crossing the same intersections and parts of the city at the same time. At 6:30 am, we would pass by a few of the homeless shelters on this side of town. I watched the mile long row of tents and sleeping bags set up on the sideway passed by almost every day for years. I would watch and try to count them as we went passed. I only every got to about 35 before the speed of the bus blurred everyone into one. Then I would promptly forget they were then until the next morning, where I would try again to take a head count.

I was curled up in my warm blankets listening to the wind throw a tantrum outside. I thought about how much I hate wind, hoping that it would die down by the time I had to head out for school. I think suddenly thought about tents and sleeping bags on the sideway. I wondered how they were doing at that moment. I wondered if they were warm and how they were faring in the wind. I wondered how they ended up there and who’s to blame. I wondered why there wasn’t an easy solution. The next morning, as the bus approached the camp, instead of counting the tents and sleeping bags, I tried to look at their faces and reflect on how they got