Warning: Video contains strong language and profound wisdom

Sometimes you have to lose everything in life to realise what it’s all really worth.

Tyler Mann recently sat down to have a conversation with a homeless man he saw outside a petrol station in Austin, Texas and had what might be one of the most profound conversations of his life.


In a sobering monologue the articulate man took Tyler through his personal story, including his cushty life before prison, his drug conviction, and his life on the street.

Occasionally wiping a tear away from his eye, he ponders on why ‘humanity has become so scared of each other’, recounting the time when he asked a woman for the time only to be shouted at.



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The unnamed man speaks the truth (Picture: Tyler Mann/Youtube)

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The man even has roughly 240 friends on Facebook (but nobody reached out when he asked them to call him on Christmas Day).

However one thing that only the video can convey is the anguish in the man’s voice as delivers his views on the world.