This week something that really stuck out to me was the topic of sociological mindfulness. It's not necessarily that the topic is anything completely new to me, but reading about it and applying real life examples to it opened up new perspectives of it to me. Since I'm pretty religious, sociological mindfulness relates a lot to how I'm taught to live according to my religious beliefs as I don't want to be ignorant to the world around me and the problems of the world, nor do I want to be purposely or even accidentally offend anyone because of lack of better judgment of my words and actions. As we read in the article about sociological mindfulness, I agree with the fact that we can't only be focused on ourselves, and I strongly believe and agree with the author's comment about how the more mindful we are, the more we know and can make a greater impact on the things that we may want to try to change in the world. On another note, I also realized that being sociologically mindful doesn't have to be about huge world problems either, but even in the small things, like realizing that a world-renowned violinist is playing for free in the middle of a public subway. It made me think about how much we miss because we're too busy and caught up in our own thoughts and schedules, regardless of if we actually recognize the violinist or not, because even if we did recognize him, our busy schedules don't always allow us to stop and enjoy the music. And I could relate that I base a lot of my judgments by the labels that something may have-like how the people probably thought how the violinist did sound good, but didn't take the effort to stop and watch because they didn't realize he was a famous violinist-because I already have certain expectations for certain things.