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Personal Narrative-Homeless Not Hopeless

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Homeless not Hopeless In November 2012 I had hit lost my job and was unable to pay my bills. I didn’t have any family or friends that was able to help me out I was later evicted from my apartment. Having nowhere else to go I ended up staying at The Salvation Army homeless shelter in Texarkana. I didn’t know at that time I met a man that would forever change my life; Michael. Despite our situation that landed us at Salvation Army was oddly to similar; he always seemed to keep a smile on his face. Michael is the type of person to put his other needs in front of his own. Although we was unable to feed ourselves on a daily bases he wanted to make sure that the people that was left in the shelter would have at least one balanced meal.
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