Brad Lea spent weeks sleeping on a beach after running out of money, choosing homelessness over going home. He socialized to find places to stay and argues that homelessness is often a choice, emphasizing that being alive matters more than owning things.
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If you have two choices, pick the smartest one. You know what I mean? Someone said, you know, you were homeless. Like you make it sound like, oh, it's a bad thing. I set out to do something, ran out of money, well, I can go back home or I can freaking tough it out and sleep on a beach for a couple of weeks, which I did. Sometimes I'd get up and just act like I was there early, lay out, hang out at the beach all day and try to meet girls and people would say, well, how did you get out of that situation? I knew that I, I didn't have a home so I needed someone with one. So I just kept meeting people until one of them was willing to let go to theirs. Guys, number one, it was a choice. And most homelessness is a choice. It's more valuable to be alive than anything I'm trying to acquire.