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I'VE KNOWN WHAT IT'S LIKE TO BE HOMELESS |
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 George aged 24 visits our
Drop-In Centre. I was born in Bolton in 1975 and I moved to Darwen in 1978 when my mum and dad split up. I lived there for fifteen years but there were loads of idiots in that town so I moved to Blackburn to sort myself out. I met a girl there and had a kid but we were having problems and having stupid arguments, so I decided to go it alone. When I was at school I managed to do alright with my studying up to about the third year. That's when I started getting into drugs. My grades started going down and I got in with a bad crowd. Even though I was only addicted to Cannabis and not any hard drugs like Heroin, it still messes up your life. It brings you down, you can't concentrate on stuff, you have short term memory loss and it affects your life in a big way. I ended up dealing it to pay for my own habit. That's where you start really going downhill. Cannabis makes you lazy, you can't be bothered doing anything and you just sit in all day doing nothing. All you can think about is your next smoke. I've known what it is like to be homeless when I was on the streets for three nights. It is bad. All I had was a cardboard box and a bit of plastic sheeting. I don't think I could do it again and if it come to it I think I would have to go back to my mum's really. In the future I want to get a job, get my own place and look after my kid more. At the moment I only get to see him two days a week |
