Guilty

There’s a feeling of guilt in the back of your mind when you’re hungry. Not just ‘missed dinner’ hungry but ‘if I buy groceries I can’t pay rent’ hungry. It’s a despicable feeling and you hate yourself for it. How could you let yourself get here? Why can’t you afford the basic necessities of your daily life? Worst of all you’re just so hungry that you desperately cling to your last dollars trying not to buy food so that you have somewhere to sleep next month. It’s a horrifying existence. It’s an existence that 58.5% of Americans know. That is a sad, miserable number. That’s a guilty number but they shouldn’t be the ones feeling guilty.