My fate I had placed in the hands of the Gods. How scary and yet how timorously but magically liberating! For the first time in my young adult life, I would be getting to know what it was really like to live in the present moment, in the here and now, from day to day, from meal to meal, always wondering in awe and in anxious anticipation – what would happen next?

I kept thinking of that line from one of Bob Dylan's songs, “Like a Rolling Stone," when he sings, “When you got nothin', you got nothin' to lose, you're invisible now you got no secrets to conceal. How does it feel?" And that about summed up my untenable, homeless predicament.

But make no mistake, I had chosen homelessness and a life of material poverty because I could. I was well aware of the fact that most of the world's population had no such choice; they were born into poverty and were forced to make do with the cards that life had dealt them.

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