Purpose!

Do you ever sit and wonder what purpose you can make in ones lifetime, such as myself is thinking right now!  After my trip to Los Angeles, I wonder, what could be done for those in need in our own country!  Helping other countries is all well and good, but I wonder about the USA, the needs that are needed here.  Are we really doing enough for our own!  I know what your thinking, she goes on a trip and comes back and now she wants to change the world!  No, that's not what I want to do, I would just like to be able to lend a helping hand!   I really have never been around as many homeless people as I was in LA, and it really affected me to the very core of my soul.  I know you are probably thinking, like I always did, there is work for people, go get a job like everyone else.  I am now very ashamed of myself for thinking and feeling like that!  I realize now some people make there own problems and most people have no choice at all!  I figure(as much as its worth) that all the people I seen with all there belongings living in streets are not doing it by choice but because they have no choices, if we believe that these people want to live like that, than we must be crazy! I am confused and feeling useless right now, it is not a good feeling at all to have and I really need to find a way that I could help others in need or at least try! Most people live week to week like I do, you try the best you can with what you have, I worry so much about me and mine that I forget about them, (others a lot less fortunate than me).
Just a little compassion, really does not hurt anyone. Its time at least for me to think of others and not always about me and mine!