Welcome to Kind World, from W-B-U-R.

You never forget your first night without a bed.

Just ask Curtis Bishop.

The first night is the hardest night. I found myself sitting

on a bunch of steps in front of, I think it was a bank. And when I realized that it's 3 o'clock in the

morning and you've got absolutely nowhere to go.

Before I was homeless, I was an accountant.

I was the type of person that really didn't even like to get dirt under my fingernails.

Curtis grew up in a small town in Newfoundland, so small that he didn't encounter a homeless

person until he was in his 20s.

I looked at homeless people and my first instinct was to point a finger and try to blame them with my nose held high.

What he did experience early on was mental illness.

I've been depressed I think since my... early on was mental illness.

I've been depressed, I think, since my teenage years.

This led to a lot of drinking, a lot of drug use.

My life just spiraled out of control.

He was in his 30s with a failed marriage

and stealing money from his job.

He was broke.

He felt he had to leave town.

That's when he found himself alone on those steps.

Your first night there, you just sort of find a piece of ground and you just lie on it.

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