Vendor's corner: Motivation from A. Allen

by A. Allen

Money Matters, Education Matters, Employment Matters, LGBTQ Lives Matter, Black Lives Matter, StreetWise Matters.

To all who didn’t know StreetWise is a form of sobriety or soberness, seriousness, and temperance, we're living in a day and age where it pays to be level headed and serious. Not being drunk with pride, prestige, entitlement, or privilege. To be aware is to be alive. Being sober is more than not drinking or drugging. Being sober is a way of life, and a way of thinking. Sobermindedness is following the COVID-19 safety guidelines of staying 6 feet apart, wearing a face covering and washing hands regularly. StreetWise and sobriety is loving and respecting yourself and your neighbors. It is honoring and appreciating all life. Being StreetWise and sober is taking time out to do the census. It is taking time out to vote. Being StreetWise and sober means going to work and making an honest living as most StreetWise vendors do daily.

Being StreetWise and sober is working with others and looking forward to the overall objective of making life better for all. It is so much more than drinking or drugging because a person can easily drink a fifth of resentment, or a six-pack of pride, you can snort some entitlement, smoke some self-pity, and shoot up some privilege. There are many ways that a person can be intoxicated, but the message today is to be StreetWise and sober so things will go better. Support your vendor and stay sober, because StreetWise and sobriety really do matter.