Recovering Blogaholic Profile on Kevin: The Homeless Guy blog
*Update*
First however, read an update on Kevin's housing situation, here.
Been busy of late working on my newest blog creation, the Blogaholics Anonymous blog.
An example of this work is the latest recovering bloggers profile I wrote, off and on, during both late yesterday afternoon and early evening.
Finally, once I manage to pull myself away long enough from the computer keyboard, I got something to eat. However do not believe for a moment that this was done for the benefit of myself or my body's needs. No, because this was only the selfish and desparate act of a blog addict who had to acquire some energy in order to help feed his rabid addiction, not himself really.
Turns out I was rather hungry, as I let myself go without any food for a little too long, being that I was helpless to pull myself away from my blogging and related work online.
Of course, do you think I ate my meal away from the computer. Heck no! What did you expect. Yes, I consumed my food while I continued blogging. Even to the point that I let it get cold and I do not like eating my hot meals cold, but did that stop me. No! It did not. Did I warm up the food in order to finish? No, I was so bad off, I ate every last bit of it anyway and we are speaking about quite a lot of food too, enough for at least two or three normal-sized servings - I kid you not! Yet I am not one to ever claim to be normal either. No thanks, been there, done that.
Well, at least I am in recovery finally and am trying my best -- step by step, even if sometimes I actually happen to be going backwards and sideways with my blogging addiction -- a little progress is better than none I suppose.
The food was what I needed to do what I had to finally get the profile I was working on punched out, do a quick review, re-edit, post it and then when it was up, spend even more time going over it and doing several edits that were mainly minor in nature.
To read the results of the process I went through last night and, then, continuing into the early hours of the morning, go to my recovering blogaholic profile on Kevin: The Homeless Guy blog.
To better tempt you, a preview follows here:
Photo: Kevin: The Homeless Guy blog
Yes, that is a Blogger hoodie underneath his winter coat!
Kevin lives homeless in Nashville, Tennessee.
However someone must have forgotten to tell him that if and when a person becomes homeless, there are simply certain things that would be impossible for them to do because of the various limitations involved. Or say, even if they were to bother trying, would not be all that good at doing.
Take establishing and maintaining a blog for example. Besides what would someone who is living homeless have to blog about, if anything at all, which would be of value and interest enough in order to attract either seriously minded netizens or those of us who are merely ordinary Internet users to visit and read such for that matter?
As it turns out, based on his own personal experience of having lived homeless on and off over a twenty-two year period (beginning back in 1982, at the age of 21), he knew all too well that people living homeless indeed had something meaningful to share with others, those who were willing and able to listen and learn anyway.
What would that be? Take just for starters their own perspectives and experiences, including their understanding and knowledge of what their basic needs are, of why people really end up becoming homeless, what it takes to survive and, generally speaking, what the experience is actually like for someone.
It of course makes sense that someone who has experienced homelessness for themselves are the one's who are most and better aware of what works and what does not work in preventing homelessness in the first place, not to mention their knowing well what would also be required to properly support a person to become housed once again and then remain so. If one thinks about it for long enough though, who else would know, but those persons whom have lived and struggled with these experience(s) themselves, like Kevin has.
Back in August of 2002 Kevin sat down at an online access computer one day, logged onto Blogger and began creating his own blog in order to help spread the word on the Internet -- through the medium of blogs -- that, in his words, there's more to homeless people than being homeless.
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Thusly The Homeless Guy introduced himself and, during most of the last twenty one months now, he has been blogging away ever since.
Within a period of less than a couple of months from the time of that initial blog post of his however, people began to take notice. Many of them had never had the opportunity to hear the perspective of the type his posts provided, especially those concerning homelessness and related matters. It took some by surprise that not only was Kevin homeless, but that he indeed was blogging regularly.
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If you read the rest of this profile I blogged of Kevin: The Homeless Guy , please know that you will be helping to support my own recovery process, even more than you already are by reading this particular blog post here on Norsehorse's Home Turf.
Thank you for reading, I could not do it without you!
:-) [smile]
*Note*: Posted an update and link concerning Kevin's housing situation: last updated on Tuesday, June 8, 2004 at 6:42 PM [EDT].
