Homelessness is not bad unless you make it so
Get used to cold and accept you will be hungry at times its a doddle

Now I was brought up with an ethic, if you don't have all you need you use what you have to attain what you need over time. Yes I am homeless and also yes I have a LOT of mental illnesses and quite a few disabilities, and I could moan and groan about how crappy life is for me, but I decided to take an alternative approach, I decided that instead of sitting and crying into a bottle of vodka or sticking something up my nose or in my arm I would make the most of my situation.
The interesting thing is I actually, probably, have a better, more fulfilling life than 95% of the country. I will give you an example, it is new years eve and I had £350 to last me 5 days, this is because I save my money and don't waste it on rubbish. Now its new year eve and a few of my friends are going out to get drunk or whatever their poison, I decided to spend £260 of my money on a laptop, so that I can start to learn Adobe again. I don't drink or take drugs apart from the odd joint when I cannot sleep and I felt this would put me in a better position to, not get out of my situation but to improve it.
I also have a dog, he has never been inside of anywhere since I got him and he runs free whenever possible. Again he has a better life than most. He always has at least 4 weeks of food in store and he always gets at least a quarter of what I eat on top of that. The point is we are both very happy with each others company and are going around the country at will.
Now I am not always, in fact am very rarely, in towns and cities, I like the woods and forests where I can play at being a caveman. I build amazing shelters and can catch, trap or net anything that moves. A lot of the stories I do on here will be about the life I live, and how I live it in the woods. I will be showing you all how to hunt, trap, build without getting in trouble and fish without rods in the wilds.
I want to show the REAL face of homelessness while mentally and physically disabled. and show that it doesn't have to be torture, it is sometimes, but isn't everyone's lives??? The thing is, yes we are vulnerable, but we are not incapable, everyone can do the things I do without breaking into to much of a sweat, Homelessness can be a trip to hell or a pathway to heaven, the choice is the person who is homeless, not the government, not the police and not the public, it is solely down to the person. I am designing a website that will have much more on than here, but on here you will get a taste and the website will take me until March or April to finish anyways.
By the end of next year, if you keep watching, you will see how a homeless man can make his own money, build his own shelters, integrate into any community, survive alone in woods, and not have to claim benefits. The formula is simple. You see what resources you have, decide what resources you need, watch the area around you, study, learn then, and only then, use your own resources to help you get to the place you want to be. I will be making a video every day from tonight ready for the following day so that you can see my life. They will be posted on here until I get the site running.

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