When your professor was a wee little boy in the 1990s (actually, I was a teenager by the end), growing up in a small town in Ohio, there were many, many songs that helped me think about the world as a more complex place than the little bubble I was living in. There were songs that made my own plight, my own personal story, more universal. One of those songs was Everlast's "What It's Like."
This song was a hit. But that's beside the point. The song begs people to be nicer to each other, if not outright, at least in its chorus: "God forbid you ever had to walk a mile in his shoes...." The song begs that people be more empathetic, think about one's own faults. Think about those moments where you are on the side of the suffering and not the person who is just a witness to a stranger's problems.
Well, for Essay 2, you are going to think of this song's theme as a jumping off point for your own story. What are some "What It's Like" moments that you can access in your own memory banks?
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