I hate the feeling I get when I hear the word poverty and I think about it. I imagine all those people who are outside, living In the middle of war and not having enough money to escape, kids without the ability to go to school and parents having to suffer to find food everyday, for them and for their children. Many people around the world does not have a place to call home, and it saddens me because we are not doing our best to change it.

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This picture shows poverty clearly. The first thing we all notice is the man in the middle. He must be in his early fifties, but I can’t see him properly. We can’t say that he is muscular or overweight either. Actually, he seems very skinny. He has medium-length, curly, untamed, hazel hair as if he hasn’t gone to the hairdressers for a while. This man is dressed in an ordinary, long, brown, plain coat with plain jeans underneath and a pair of old-fashioned shoes. He is just carrying a plastic bag in one hand, and with the other is searching for anything useful in the garbage can. This makes us realise that his appearance is due to he does not have enough money, he didn’t have the same luck as us and he has to move around the streets searching for anything to eat or at least, survive. On both sides there’s 4 people sitting peacefully on two benches. On the right there’s an old man with a thoughtful expression and on the left there’s three people: two women having a conversation and one man reading a newspaper. The place seems quite nice, it may be a small square of the city center where the neighbourhood gathers in spring, as they are wearing summer clothes but also thin jackets. They are all just spending a good time... ignoring the other man who’s standing right next to them.

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As I already said, I think that this ordinary scene shows how our society works nowadays. The reason why this world has poverty it’s not separation, it’s not because we can’t see it on the day a day, it’s because we don’t want to see it until it concerns us. Many poor people are sleeping right next to us, but the difference is that we have a bed to sleep and they don’t. Thankfully, films as “The platform”, “Mondays in the sun” or “Full Monty” give a voice for these people and protest through the big screen, such as music or books too. We have to change this as soon as possible because today it’s them, but tomorrow it can be you.

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After thinking about all this, my conclusion is that we have to be more thankful for everything we have. And not just because we can travel to that place or we can buy this new phone, thankful because we can have breakfast, lunch and dinner everyday, thankful because we can go to school and learn for our future, thankful because we can get water and light just by pressing a button, thankful because we don’t have to see scenes of war everyday and thankful because, at least, we can say that we have a proper life. Believe it or not, not many people can get all those things that for us are basic needs. You just have to go to outside and, this time, pay more attention to the people around you.