Well, for one, I am demonstrably superior to most of the people I meet. Not because I'm smarter than anyone else - I'm not - but because I never quit, I never stop. It is my actions that define me, not who I am or what was done to me. Whereas for housed people, it is what they own that defines them, and when they lose everything they own, they act as if they have lost part of themselves. In a real way, they have, because they think that material things can be an identity, when in reality material things provide only the illusion of an identity.
Do you really think that you could hitch-hike across the country, survive while homeless for over a year in cities across the western half of the USA (dodging drug dealers, thieves, and pimps, or intimidating them when I couldn't avoid them), survive being hit by a truck, and then go to college while homeless?
Being homeless made me stronger, and it stripped away many of the weaknesses and doubts that plag
ued me. I know what's in my own best interests. I have no mercy or pity for you and your life problems, because I also have no mercy or pity for myself. If I am hard on others, it is because I am just as hard on myself. I am fair. Because I am fair, I will not accept an offer of aid from someone who can barely take care of themselves, because they need it more than I do, and if I leech off them, then there is a real chance that they will become homeless as a result. If they do, then it will be my fault, and I will be responsible for them.
If I make a promise, then I will keep it. If a housed person makes a promise, then you can flip a coin to determine whether or not they will keep it. It an be an offer of aid, or an offer to kick your ass, but they will rarely follow through on it, because they are soft, weak-willed, and self-deceiving.
Besides all this, once can't be homeless and soft-hearted at the same time. Those that do will be used by other homeless people, until they have nothing left to give. I will not use a person, unless they want to give, but neither will I deceive myself that they are doing this for any other reason than to make themselves feel better about their own life, so they go back to their TV and forget about me and all the other homeless people like me.
You are free to have whatever opinion you want of me; your emotions are your problem, not mine.