A life of living on the streets is a harsh existence where kindness and compassion are often lacking and in short supply. The Bay Area of California has been hit hard by the homeless epidemic and is home to the third-largest homeless population in the United States.
Often times, these people living on the streets are ignored by society and forced to beg for food or a little bit of money just to get by on. Mick Myers was one of those downtrodden individuals, but an encounter with a police officer would soon send him and the officer on a path that would change both of their lives for the better.
30 years on the streets
Thirty years is a long time and for three decades, Mick Myers had been living on the streets. Without friends or family, Mick had nobody to turn to for help and he would hope to get by from panhandling and playing his guitar on the streets. He’d belt out “Sweet Home Alabama” and other songs, but he was usually ignored. “Most of the people just hurry by and don’t even give me a glance,” he told a local news station.
Mick wasn’t always homeless, of course, but his life was tough from the very beginning.
The early years of Mick’s life
When Mick was just a small baby, he was adopted by a family in San Leandro, California. Even though his adoptive mother loved and doted on him, he never developed much of a bond with his other siblings.
Even though Mick was loved by his mother, the rest of the family didn’t share the same affection for Mick. Understandably, this was hard for him and he often spent time alone in his room, isolated and feeling lonely and left out. This isolation would sadly become a theme for most of Mick’s life and times would become even worse for him as an adult.
Mick was without a connection to his past
Eventually, as Mick got older he felt more isolated and drifted away from the friends he had in high school. Because he never had much of a bond with his siblings, Mick had nobody to turn to once his mother passed away. To complicate matters even further, Mick didn’t learn that he was adopted until he was 16 and even then there was little that his adoptive parents could tell him about his biological mother. He simply didn’t have any connection to who he was.
