I Told My Son Reflection

“I Told My Son…”
The other day while I was driving, my son saw a homeless man and have asked me that “how can I know which homeless person become homeless because he was a bad person”, he thinks homeless people becomes homeless because they are bad or they did something bad. If he asked me that question before I took this class my answer to him would be completely different than what I just told him. I am ashamed to say that I used to think that people become homeless or fail in life because they have done something wrong, they did not go to school, or they do not want to work, the usual stereotypes. However, this class completely opened my eyes and my perspectives on so many things have changed. I want to thank you for that, not only my perspective has changed in the right direction but I …show more content…
However, I am proud to say that perspective changed and now if I point out a homeless person and I would tell my kids that “you can do everything right in this life, you can study very hard, you can be a doctor, you can have the highest education possible, but that does not prevent you failing in life”. Before I take this class I was wondering what would I do with this career, worrying that if I can ever find a job with a sociology degree. I do not wonder and worry anymore because even if I cannot find a job I will use what leaned from this class and as well as other sociology classes to educate my kids, to teach them to think correctly. Thank you for such a great semester, it was a pleasure to get to know you. I bet you hear that a lot but you have that positive energy and being around you truly made me happy beside everything I have learned. I promise I will seek opportunities to be a part of the positive changes in our society, in any way I