Creative Essay: Why Are There Poor People

Creative Essay:  Why Are There Poor People


     Looking back on my childhood, I realize how lucky I was to be blessed

with the family I have.  Knowing what I know now, I have come to understand that

not every kid had the same life that I had.  Not every child had a living room

full of gifts on Christmas morning, or a family to share a birthday with.  I was

lucky enough to have all of the luxuries that so many children yearn for.  So

many children take for granted the fact that they eat three meals a day, while

so many others are lucky to find a scrap of bread in a dumpster.

     It wasn't until I was about nine or ten when I realized that there were

poor people in the world.  My family and I had been on our annual trip to New

York City to see the Christmas play at Radio City.  I didn't understand why all

these people kept asking my dad to spare them some change, or why a family was

searching through the dumpster.  I asked, "Daddy, why is that man sleeping on

the street?"

     My dad spent a long time explaining to me that not everybody had the

same life as our family did.  Some kids parents didn't have jobs to go to every

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