A Ripple Effect is defined by a situation in which one events causes a series of other events to happen. I feel like each person has their own ripple effect in their life, and they cause a ripple that affects everyone around them. Whether it's good or bad, we affect everyone, no matter if we have known them all our lives or we just met them.

The summer before my junior year in high school, I went to Washington D.C. for a week. I was one of the two people from my school and one of the fifty from Georgia. It was for a FFA (Future Farmer's of America) convention. It taught me how you can do something as little as giving food to the homeless and it turns into something that changes the world, even if it is in just a small way.

Celebrities have influenced people everyday for a long time now. From what to wear, to showing us that if they can take a certain drug then we can too. Although I want to state that drugs are bad, even if a celebrity does it. They put it out there that it is ok for you to be drinking this or smoking that. Celebrities affect us negatively most of the time.

We make our own ripples by making decisions everyday.We decide to get up everyday, go to school, or work, or both. It's now common for us to juggle both while trying to be social. You decide what you are going to wear or what food you will eat today.

I worked for Dollar General for a year and a half. My last day was Friday last week, then I turned around and started a new job the next day. But before I left the DG, I said goodbye to a lot of my favorite customers. And what they said made me realize that I affected them and their shopping experience.

A lot of them said that they would miss me and that they wished me luck. But a few impacted me in ways where I almost started crying right there in front of them. 'You are going to do great wherever you go. I hope you find happiness there. You really deserve it.' I didn't really feel like I impacted my customers that much. I was just a cashier that would say hello and ask them about their day. But I guess it means more when you actually talk to them. And I am humbly happy that I was able to be in their lives for this year and a half. I hope I can do the same at Goodwill.

Goodwill has it's own ripple effect. This company sells donated goods to put people to work. I work to organize and put out those donated goods so we can sell them so that the money goes to find jobs for people in our community.

See? Everything around us has its own ripple. What is yours? You might not even know that you affected the people around you. Next time you decide for yourself, think about how that will affect you. Because the ripple effect starts by one event, one decision, one person. Maybe if we all thought about this, maybe we could change the world a little bit.