What is the best piece of advice of that your parent or guardian has given you? Tell what the advice was and what prompted you to ask the question.

 Prompt Response: If I am being honest I have had no such experience of asking my single mom for advice or even back then or my step dad either, it was because they were always quick to misjudge or assume things about me which is why I don't usually seek advice from them because their incapable of doing it. Or rather it is the lack of trust in their ability to give me some good advice that I might not know since I am wise and kind of smart. Anyways to answer the prompt question, I suppose if I really had to ask them one question it would be "How can you live working all the time despite the emotional setbacks you face? Is it because you don't have a choice, or is it because you seek something better?". The thing that would ever prompt me to ask such a question to them, would probably be in my later or young adult years at the time or perhaps in the near future where I am desperate for help. 

Summary: Today in class we focused on a poem called "Mother to Son" made by Langston Hughes and analyzed thoroughly in the aspects of each line and what they represent. 

Reflection: Today I learned from the poem "Mother to Son" that often times our parents or really any old adult who really wants to live has no choice but to bear the burdens they might face in the emotional or mental regard in order to chase their goals or dreams. This impacted me by making me feel a sense of profoundness in this and meaning as I realized the flaw within myself that I myself am a person like that too like any other being with the only difference is what I do or what I think compared to others. In the future I will use this when talking about my own meaning or profoundness that I find in myself or Cheryl as I read throughout her journey of the PCT. 


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