We can all learn so much from the contents of someone’s purse or wallet, I just didn’t know I would learn something new about myself. This essay was my favorite to write because I learned so many new things about myself and my identity. For me, this was such a strong essay because I never realized what I could learn about someone’s identity in such a small item. I always thought you had to know people for years before understanding and learning about who they are, but digging through a stranger’s billfold or purse can at least give you an inkling of the kind of person they are.
The prompt was: “What's in your Wallet? Now, take out your own wallet or purse and examine its contents. Following the prompts on page 4, write a one-page profile about yourself, using only the contents you find to represent your life, and post it to your blog. Your profile should answer these questions:
- Taken separately or together, how do the contents of your wallet construct an image of your identity?
- What assumptions might someone make about your personality, values, or identity based on what you carry?
- If all they had to go on is your wallet, what would people miss or be unable to know about you?”
This was the most exciting essay I got to write, as well as the first essay I’ve written at college level. One of my favorite parts of the paper was: “Someone's final conclusion about me based on my purse and wallet would probably be something like:
this is an extremely disorganized pale lady who loves her family, her pictures and will likely be a future candidate for that Hoarders show.” Needless to say, my purse still looks like a war zone.
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