We are looking for answers to some hard questions as we dig deep inside and explore our own core values and how that guides not just our own lives but the very world that we live in. These questions will be asked to a group of high school students but we would also like to hear from the world at large. While we hope to keep this forum wide open we do reserve the right to delete responses that we find to be offensive or combative in nature. Thank you for participating with us.
posted by Michelle at 9:07 AM
15 Comments:
As a teenager I can't honestly say that I might not have just stuffed the money in my pocket and gone on like nothing happened.
That's not, however, who I am today. I'd get the attention of the person (stranger, friend, or foe) and get the money back to them. I would do this not because of anything about them but because of who I am, how I think and feel, and what's right for me.
I would hand the dollar bill back to whoever dropped it, no matter whether I liked or disliked, know or didn't know that person, and I think everyone should that as well.
I would give it back.
What goes around, comes around, as someone commented on an earlier post in this blog.
If I saw who dropped it, I would return it, whether I liked them, knew them, or not.
Now, if someone mugged me, and dropped the $20 while running away... :)
When I was about 10 or 11 I found a bill on the floor at the grocery store. I put it in my pocket and kept my mouth shut until I got home. When I pulled the bill out of my pocket I was shocked to see it was a 20... Now in the early to mid 60's 20 bucks was big money! I told my mother, she called the store, and sure enough the lady who lost it had left her name with the manager. We returned the 20 and the lady gave me 10 for being honest... Long story I know but it always pays to be honest.
If SOMEONE DROPPED A $20 I WOULD PICK IT UP AND RETURN IT, LIKE I DID, TO KIP AND KEN. HONESTLY, IF IT WAS A STRANGER I WOULD STILL GIVE IT BACK OR TURN IT IN. I WOULD DO THAT BECAUSE IT SHOWS KINDNESS, EVEN IF THE PERSON AND I DON'T GET ALONG. TO ME PERSONALY IT SHOWS RESPECT AND HONESTY FOR ME TO GIVE THE MONEY BACK. PLUS I WOULD WANT THE SAME DONE TO ME IN RETURN
At first today befor me and my class talked about this subject I probily would have taken the 20 daller bill, expesally if the person that droped it was overly disrespectful to me. But after the class gatherd this morning as a group and everybody got to share there opinion about the subject, I have had a different opinion about it. Now I think I would give it back.
If someone I did not get along with dropped a $20 bill I would pick it up and hold on to it for 1 or 2 minutes. Than after that I would give it back to them and tell them to keep better track of there money and tell them that they droped it a couple of minutes ago. But if it was a stranger I would say excuse me ma'am you dropped your money and than give it to them.
i will keep the money put if it was a total stranger i will give it back to him/her.
If it was me who lost a twenty, I'd want it back. So, I guess I'd give it back whether I knew the person or not or even if I disliked him or her.
I know how it hurts when I lost $80 during frosh week in university. So I would leave the money with someone in the front desk or whereever there is help and give it to them.
Absolutely I'd give it back. No matter who the person is.
Now--if I just find one blowing down the street unattached to an owner, it's mine!
I lost $20 out of my pocket on a bike ride the other week--although I was disapointed, I hoped someone found it who really, really needed it.
I wouldn't want someone to take my money if they saw me drop it, so I would give it back. I would also do it for a stranger, you never know, he/she might need it more than I do.
If I saw the person drop it, I would absolutly return it. It's the right thing to do. I believe that Karma would return the favor.
Earlier in life I wouldn't have but now I defenatly would. I used to be very dis honest about the things that I use to do. I have learned alot about honesty, but I don't always use it today. I learn that it's better to be honest about what you do and that it can effect others in certain ways, but most of all it can effect your self. So now if I saw someone that I dislike I would defenatly give it back because I know that it will always make me be a better person. Also I would because I know that I would probably become the bigger person for say it is me I know that some of the people that I live with would not do the same.
If it is a stranger off the streets I would go and give it back to them because it would make me feel better about myself.
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