All of a sudden, I found myself thinking sociologically when I was thinking about a month ago. When you where a teenager you never want to listen to your parents. They tell you thats wrong but you go ahead and do it anyways just to tick them off. And if you judged someone and your parnets find out, they always say "try to walk in there shoes and see how it goes."
A month ago at my youth group a man who was homeless came into the church. We all looked at him and in the back of the room you could hear mummbles. I knew that if I said anything out loud and my parents found out I would be dead so I kept my mouth shut. (Which is hard to do) My youth group leader gave him a drink and some extra food from that night. And he stared talking to him, asking him question and trying to find out were he was from. He started to talk to us. And we found that he was really not homeless at all. This was our speeker tonight. He lived on the streets to see how it felt. He really lived in someone elses shoes. Now I undersatand what it means.
Which sociologist would apply to this man's situation of living as a homeless person? Actually, two people might fit this situation....
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