NYC officer, the boots and the world......

National news is reporting that the man given a pair of boots by a NYC officer is walking around barefoot again. I can't say that it suprises me. Homeless people are on the street for a myriad of reasons. There is a large number of them that suffer from mental illness. They do have loving families that can not help their relative because the person does not want to be helped. Not that they are ung...rateful or bad, just that they have a mental illness, usually a psychotic disorder, which does not allow them to live in "reality" or in "the conventional world" And, yes, many do have a drug and/or alchol addiction but that is usually secondary to the mental illness. In fact, many addicts in general are self medicating for a mental illness. What the NYC officer did was necessary for him as well as for society. To give to others feeds our souls. We should not be discouraged by the homeless man not wearing his new shoes, we need to feel encouraged that a young, NYC officer bought a shoeless man shoes, a woman was impressed enough to take a picture and the world chose to honor all this via a viral you tube posting, facebook postings, and all that ensued. Religous people may say that the NYC office acted as God's angel on earth.