Invisible people

I chose this man, probably because I can relate to him the most.

Michael from InvisiblePeople.tv on Vimeo.

Not saying that I was ever homeless for years, but I have been on the streets from time to time, and playing guitar on the street is usually the only way to make money when you don't have a place to shower for a job, or an address to get a check sent to.

I totally sympathized with Michael when it came to the issue of cops, after ten is probably one of the best times to play music on the street- many people are leaving bars and are much more likely to hand over a ten or a twenty than the change in their pocket, and it's just a low blow for the cops to give a homeless man a ticket. They know that it is difficult for someone to pay a sixty dollar ticket when they might be making forty dollars a day, but they do it anyways.

I wouldn't say that homeless people are any less invisible than others, they might need more help and it's harder for them to achieve, but especially in a crowded city, you never know what's going on in the life of the guy next to you on a bus, or the guy sitting on a bench reading a paper might be a CEO on his lunch break or it could be a homeless person. It's not that they are more invisible than anyone else, but people don't want to concern themselves with everyone they might encounter on the streets, either we don't have the time, or we don't want to face that kind of reality, but that's just how it is.