User blog comment:Warriorfan123/Vacation and something to think about/@comment-5137480-20150717161213

This really made me think about a book I read called Wonder. It's about a boy with mandibulofacial dysostosis (I had to look up the term..) and he is - there's not really a good way to put it - deformed. I put in italics the part I'm talking about.

"The universe was not kind to Auggie Pullman. What did that little kid do to deserve his sentence? What did his parents do? Or Olivia? She once mentioned the odds of someone getting the same combination of syndromes that came together to make Auggie's face were like one in four million. So doesn't make the universe a giant lottery, then? You purchase a ticket when you're born, and it's all just random whether you get a good ticket or a bad ticket. It's all just luck."

My teacher does something I whole-heartedly support and want to spread the word about. Whenever she sees a homeless person, she takes them out to dinner, or lunch, or buys them one of those fruit packets. She doesn't give them money, as they could be using it to buy illegal things, she gives them their next meal, something that might be hard to come by.

...now i'm sad.