Human Nature

Today at school, as i was walking through the commons on my way to the parking lot, i found a key chain. Attached to this key chain was a wallet with a picture of a 6th grader and it had about 20 dollars in it. I did not know who this little girl was but i was determined to find her and give her, her keychain lanyard. I thought it would get to her easier if i personally gave it to her, rather than a maintenance person finding it and putting it in the lost and found. I searched all through the commons asking the other children if this was their friend or where she was. I finally went outside and saw her standing with a group of her classmates. I asked if the lanyard was hers and she nodded, looking a little embarrassed. For the past few weeks in class, we have been talking about the Human Nature and how different people see us. Mencius says that we are born good and to become evil, there has to be a force. in his quote "Water indeed will flow indifferently to the east or the west, but will it flow indifferently up for down? now by striking water and causing it to leap up, you may make it go over your forehead." Now, when i found that lanyard, i could have taken the money out of it and left it to be found on the ground, but the good in me decided to find that little girl. I am sure that most of us would have not taken the money, unless we were pressured which is the FORCE that would cause us to be evil.

ANNA LEIB