It’s not often that I will link to another website in a post.
Well, that’s a little odd to say given that I haven’t really done that many posts here (I started with good intentions, but meh).
It is quite often that I find myself in a situation where I really feel for a fictional person. A few years ago, author Tim Bowler came to my secondary school and before that I read his book Shadows. I found myself very affected by this book for some reason. There have been other instances where this has happened but I won’t go into them now.
I was recently shown this blog about Alice and Kev (http://aliceandkev.wordpress.com) , where these two characters, child Alice and her father Kev, have been made in The Sims 3, been made homeless, moneyless, and with certain personality traits. It could be considered a social documentary on the homeless, an amusing yet toughtful story, or somebody with nothing better to do playing The Sims and writing about it on his website.
I’ve often thought about the homeless, especially homeless children. As I write this, I am lying on my bed, fairly comfortable (aside from the fact that I’ve done my back in) and the fridge downstairs has food in it, I’ve got clothes in my wardrobe, and am typing this on a computer bought within the past couple of weeks. I’m lucky, I also live in an area where there isn’t homelessness. But even twenty miles up the road in Barnstaple there are people living homeless, some by default some by choice. I don’t know what the case is with children being homeless, but I know there are some.
Reading through Alilce and Kev, I got this overwhelming urge to find Alice and just give her a hug. A few times I’ve wanted to be able to do something with homeless children but don’t know what.
There is something else that I won’t go into now though about something that happened a while back that I haven’t forgotton about.
Anyway, I’d go and read Alice and Kev if I were you. It’s being updated daily (or so it seems), and if you don’t start feeling for Alice then I think there’s something wrong with you.
