Human First and Foremost

For this blog, our teacher told us to watch a video about a man named Ronald Davis. Ronald is a man that has been recently been unlucky enough to become homeless. The video shows us the Mr. Davis telling us his everyday life and how people treat him. He is upset at how life treated him not letting him have a home or be able to have a job because of how he looks. That got me thinking of how unfair life can actually be and how harsh and heartless Man can be.
When we come into the world we don't get the chance to choose how we want our lives to be. We grow up in different environments and it is by luck that we get good homes and stable families. I was blessed enough to have been born and raised into a good environment and most of my peers at Strake Jesuit were equally blessed, but there are people out there that probably deserve to have nicer thing but they simply don't get them. People that could have achieved so much if only they had been given something when they were younger, and there's people that don't achieve anything even thought they have it all.
It is unfair for us to make fun of people that don't have as much as we do. Ronald Davis talks about how there are people that just judge him by how he looks and make fun of him in the streets. He talks about the humiliation of being seen begging for money, and how hurt he is that people forget that he is human. People like him have been stripped of everything that they once owned, whether it was a lot or a little, and they do not deserve to be the butt of other people jokes, especially if said people get to go home at night and sleep in a warm bed.
I was glad after I did some more research on Ronald Davis and found out that he has been helped by a number of people since the video came out almost a year ago. I saw a lot of comments on the internet of people realizing how lucky they actually are by watching this video and other videos like this and reaching out to people that do not have as much as they do.