Introduction to "My Wallet" - Writers Choice

What does a wallet say about a person? Can you find out everything that there is to know? The prompt was to write about your wallet and it’s contents; to analyze how your identity is defined. Culture influences you to make assumptions based on appearances and trivial information. This assignment challenged me to look at my wallet, or personal possessions, and analyze it from a different cultural perspective. To become aware that people can pass judgment over something so insignificant is rather disturbing. “I feel that your wallet my cover the hard evidence, but doesn’t provide the details.” Yes, a wallet can tell you some facts, but it neglects to tell you the things that can matter the most about a person. I chose this because not only did I enjoy writing it, but also it turned out to be one of my favorite pieces. I felt that the writing reflected my writing abilities and clearly is a representation of my personality. The paper is rather intriguing, in that it wasn’t simply an overview of what was in my wallet; it was a clear step to becoming an interesting writer with clever commentary and viable arguments. Passages like, “There are so many assumptions that one can make over one’s wallet, but until you meet the person you can’t prove them to be true… after all even though it’s on my driver’s license I really don’t weigh 130,” show that I can create something interesting to read. This assignment with is a step outside normalcy for me because I usually am quite bland; however several passages even now impress me. I clearly demonstrated in this paper that I could branch out and look into something as personal as my wallet and successfully analyze it.