Social Change Awareness....?

Well hello everyone out there in cyberspace, this is my first ever blog I have ever wrote so I hope it keeps you somewhat engaged! In what ways am I becoming more aware of social change and how it is shaping me as a leader? Well that is a difficult question for me to answer in a straight forward response. Until a week ago I was not quite sure what the term "social change" meant. Social change to me means that you are changing your environment in a positive way and you are making a direct impact on the people around you, especially some of the least fortunate ones who are in need of social change. In my 22 years I have not really been involved in any direct social change movements, now that is not saying that I have not done good deeds or service projects to help better my community and the people around me. I am very involved in my church, the Knights of Columbus, my scout troop, and obviously my fraternity. Yes I have been involved in very worthwhile service projects and have done good turns daily, but I feel that being part of a movement that socially changes a group of people is much, much more than service projects or philanthropic efforts.
I feel that to take part in a movement that socially changes a community or a group of people is a major effort, because you are not just helping people for a day, week, or a year but for a lifetime. You have made their lives better forever and I know that personally and unfortunately have not been apart of such a movement. But I am welcoming the opportunity to take on an effort like that and really make a difference for a lifetime, not just the present.
I do not think there is a time in my life where I thought of social change differently because honestly I never really heard of the term or seen people engaging in socially changing activities. Since I am green at the gills with this, I am welcoming it into my life and I hope that I can engage the people around me to get educated about what this really means also. But how I would approach this now would be with open arms, an open mind, and an open heart. My current approach to this topic is just to get educated and take that knowledge I receive from this class and my peers and then become the subject matter expert and in return educate the people around me to advocates for this. Then instead of talking about how they took the wrong approach and how they are correcting it later on, that they take right approach first and lead by example to their peers. Now I would think that would be a socially changing movement.