For more than a month, I have been stealing food like bread, rice, and eggs from the local shops and individuals. I do it because I am hungry and I feel bad for doing it. Survival is not a choice, and the nature of hunger robs me of choices. I couldn’t choose to have food when I don’t, and I couldn’t choose not to be hungry. Starvation is a matter of life and death, but morality is a byproduct of plenty. I know many will criticize, philosophize, and moralize my doing, but the realities of survival don’t bend ideology. It doesn’t matter if it is moral to steal for survival because the hungrier you are the less you will care. Sometimes I feel like death is better than dishonor, hunger, and starvation, but… are you so personally ready to die that you would not even steal scraps from a dumpster?
Pray for me. I know the Lord will one day change my story.
Pray for me. I know the Lord will one day change my story.