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Don't judge by first impression!



How easy to say but to live up to it – sometimes that can be hard. Has it ever happened to you that you judged someone by first impression? Based on his or her clothing and looks? Have you ever heard the phrase "I'm open-minded and liberal but..."? 

I’m telling you a story on meeting a homeless man. I'm standing at the station and I see a desperate man in ragged clothes. His face is tense and soon I learn that he lives on the streets. We start a conversation and I feel that I would like to help him.

Me: How did you end up in this situation, if I may ask?
Homeless man: I had been living happily with my wife for long but some time ago everything changed, we got divorced and I ended up on the streets.
Me: Why were you the one who had to go?
He: I felt that it was my fault that things went wrong. I wanted my children to live in a peaceful environment; divorce in itself hurts them enough.
Me: And where are you heading?
He: I would like to go to Győr, I got a phone number from a friend to a homeless shelter, I would like to go there so I don't have to sleep on the streets. 

I ask him to show me that phone number, I dial and try to help, but there is no free bed at the shelter. One phone call after the other. Finally, we manage to find a shelter where he can spend the night. When we bid farewell, I give him some money. What have I learnt from him? That you can never know why someone in a is given situation until you listened to his or her story.

The blog entry was written by the students of Budapest Business School at the Roma Heroes workshop of Independent Theatre.
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