Video Reflection
My reflection of this video is a very humbling one. There is so many items in my life like, a house, meals, electricity, showers, and entertainment that I take for granted. Although I witness this a lot, I have never been able to hear the full story of the life of a homeless person from their perspective And that's another factor, that just one of the many. When you realize how many people have the same exact story as him, its saddening. This kind of poverty is something in life that you know is impossible to stop all over the world, but you still want to. You feel for these people, people that you have never met. People that you probably wouldn't have the time to listen to their story.
Ronald Davis was just one random homeless person on the streets. Yet once you hear his story, he doesn't sound so random. You begin to feel sad for him, just as if he was somebody you knew. Pity is an odd, yet effective way to relate to somebody. Even though most people reading this will have a very tough time relating to his life (including me), you can relate to him as a human being. A human being who is in obvious pain. The pain of being regarded as less than a human being. There's this objective sense of emotion that everybody will get after hearing his story. The Ronald Davis story isn't supposed to just invoke a sense of admiration and pity at the same time. Its supposed to show how there's millions of people like Ronald Davis out there, fighting for something that should never be taken away from a human being: dignity.
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