whatever we do the world will bleed in

I believe that the Stanford student hoped that society will continue to encourage community service and that he hopes his grandchildren can be involved in what he was involved in. He was hoping they will be able to see the changes he saw and to experience his experiences through that homeless shelter. However, it would have been better for him to say he hopes his grandchildren will not have to volunteer at that same shelter. We see it as a paradox to overcome homelessness. Because how many of us can honestly picture a world lacking despair and homelessness.

The way I view it the world is either going to go towards most people being homeless or the complete opposite. Ultimately it is the goal of the future's youth who will make these changes. I also think through the story the student was hoping that society would morph towards teaching children and being models for children at younger ages. Developmentally speaking, psychologists have proven that children will model behaviors and a quote in the book states how children aren't good at listening to their parents, but they are good at imitating them.

I believe that human awareness would be all it took to have a society without homelessness. We are such a self-centered species so caught up in consumption and "junk values" as the book calls it, that we do not see the world passing by us. It is better to ignore the bad than bring it up and to shelter are children. However, realistically just the opposite would help to transform our society. The younger generations must be taught awareness every in society. We must not assume they are being taught the correct values and ways to help in society by someone else. The repetition will eventually make them aware. We need to also maintain our society and not worry so much about materialism. Those who do make a difference in the world such as teachers should be reevaluated to see if they are fit for the job and once evaluated their pay should be raised. It is not right that we pay those who entertain us millions of dollars and then go and pay the people who pave our futures the bare minimum. In my opinion society as a whole is lucky that there are people who still aspire to work in these types of professions.

Due to this, I am not sure that it is possible to have a culture where people do not sleep on the streets by the time I have grandchildren. However, if we come together as a whole I believe it will be accomplished faster than we believe it can. The quote that I took most from these two chapters was that whatever we do the world will bleed in. I took it as meaning that we cannot shelter our children and then hope they will be successful when thrown out into the real world. Children have a higher understanding to empathize which I believe could help society in the long run if we just expose them and teach them what life really is and what they must do to fix it before they become too comfortable like the rest of us have become.