Should I give a homeless person a dollar?
If I was walking down the street and a homeless person approached me and asked for a dollar. my initial impulse would be to give him a dollar. It feels almost as an obligation to help out a fellow man with less fortune as you. It feels like an obligation to humanity. Then again, many other things would enter in my head that advocate not giving the homeless man a dollar. The homeless man might receive the dollar and ask for more money and that is just immature and annoying. He might use the dollar and spend in unwisely, like on drugs or alcohol. He may harm me and steal my wallet. One last skeptical idea would be that he isn’t homeless at all and he is just on the street lying about his financial situation to obtain a dollar without working. These ideas would stop me from giving a homeless man a dollar. If the homeless man ensured me that he was going to buy food with it and not alcohol and drugs, I myself would go with him and buy that item of food. However, after all that analysis I do also consider that it’s just a dollar. Nevertheless, I could purchase a double cheeseburger or a soft serve cone from McDonalds. After giving it all this thought I would not give the homeless person a dollar, but if I didn’t have all this time to analyze my next move I would probably cave and give him the dollar.
Topic of my Choice
The topic I choose will be about my favorite activity. My favorite hobby is surfing. I started surfing about four years ago and I knew I was addicted. I have a 6’4” short board and a 7’2” long board. I grew up on the gulf coast of Florida in Sarasota. Although, Sarasota does not have waves all the time I can still get some surfing in during storms, cold fronts, or take a trip to the east coast. I have been surfing in Costa Rica twice, but I have been there four times. This past summer I went to Playa Hermosa and surfed week as a graduation present from my parents. The other time I surfed there was back in the summer before my freshman year of high school. When I surf in Sarasota I surf at Lido Key at a private beach of a hotel. I have met a lot of people out in the lineup. It’s a good place to talk to old very experienced surfers. For instance, I met this guy who had been surfing that spot since 1972. Old surfers can teach a lot. You can meet a lot of interesting and crazy people who can change your life after one conversation. One the most amazing things I have seen while surfing is a dolphin surfing the wave about one hundred feet to the right of me. One day I hope to establish a career in Costa Rica and be able to surf every day.