It's Pretty Funny How Things Work Out Sometimes
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Today was the last day of school, right before vacation. And I still had a lot to do.
Knowing that this was my last chance, I packed my last presents for my friends at school into me backpack. After waiting a while, the bus finally came, and thus ensued a long and boring trip.
Almost as soon as I got to school, I, myself, was given a present by one of me friends (I'll call him Million). I hurriedly drop the package in me locker and close the door, without remembering where, exactly I put it.
Soon after, I try to give my present to another friend (for story purposes, I'll call them Martial). However, she refuses it.
Almost as soon as this happens, me teachers notify me that I have been chosen as part of a group of elite 8th-graders to go to the governor's inauguration.
Fast forward to lunch: I open my present and thank Martial, who then asks obliviously: "Any lunch money?"
I smile and give her the money I was planning to give her.
Fast forward to E-Period: I look around for Million's present, but can't find it anywhere. I shrug, not that unhappy, and continue me work.
Later, on the bus, I am incredibly bored and decide to look one last time through me backpack. As I do so, I realize that this is it. I'm never getting the present, in all likelihood. And I start to get slightly more anxious, more unnerved about this possiblity (irrational, I now realize, but that's just me for you). Arriving at the conclusion that it appears not to be in me bag, I open the bag of several cookies that I planned to give to me friends all together but was unable to. After all, it can't hurt...
...But I'm thinking a lot more than it can't hurt when I see Million's present staring right back at me.
Finally, at home, I realize something: if not for the smallness of my town and, therefore, me lack of competition, I possibly would not have been picked to see the governer.
Now, what does this all mean?
Right now, Mangai doesn't think life can get any better, for him, and for others. A strange series of coincidences led to this conclusion, but they are all worthy of undying happiness.
Have a great holiday season, folks!
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