Do I have the full picture?

 I truly feel that many of us never have the full picture. When we see people we only see what they look like on the outside, we don't see what they truly go through or what they are going through currently. In school we usually only have one side of a story, when there are multiple sides to every story. To get the full picture we have to be able to take the time to get to know that person or acknowledge all sides of the story, instead of judging a book by it's cover. When I was in grade school something that I loved about my 9th grade history teacher, is that she always provided us with multiple points of view from all kinds of people, on history topics that we discussed, and made it easy for us to understand that there is more than one side than just the "white man's" side, she had showed me stories from African American survivors that I had never heard about, until being in her class. As a future teacher, when it comes to my students learning I will definitely always provide my students with multiple points of views to situations, so that they can have a wide range of stories.