So - on the subject of the (so-called) disadvantaged, downtrodden or homeless -
IF you feel very sorry and distraught for the homeless and downtrodden - how many of those that you feel sorry for do you help? You can help! You could knit or crochet sweaters, mittens, blankets. You can feed them. You could bring them canned goods, you could bring one, two, even a few home. You could give them money.
I feel that one can sit around in their cushy home and wring their hands with grief over how sad it is and say how you feel sorry for them, while chastising those (like me, for instance) who say they have a choice and that they don't really feel sorry for them - but if you don't actually DO something to help them - then shame on you.
I don't live in Charles, so I am not familiar with what they have available to help their disadvantaged or poor people. In Calvert County, there is a
homeless shelter right on Main Street in Prince Frederick. They are not the only place that people can get food, or help, either. Sure, there are "homeless people" who live in the woods in several places around the town of Prince Frederick. I know they do, because I see some of them leaving the woods to go to work. (either on foot or by bicycle) They have camps, with real tents. They apparently ARE choosing to live that way, because they have tents and a camp. Tents and camps cost some kind of money. Maybe not a lot of money, but somehow they set up a camp and make that their homestead. (just like a KOA, except way less expensive and not as many amenities)
Personally, I don't feel "fortunate" or lucky to have what I have in my life. I have gratitude for it all, and I am very satisfied with what I do have, but I have worked very hard to have it. I have made choices which allowed me to be where I am. So, that is not luck.