8 - Alejandro M: The Extremely Unexpected Gift

 

We all love joyful surprises. Whether it’s surprising someone or being the one who got surprised, these surprises are always something that can cheer you up. Now these surprises can be even better if gifts are involved. This is what happened when I unexpectedly surprised my best friend with a gift.

I am known to be a very quiet and serious person, (for most things, but not for all) therefore many people don’t ever expect me to show many forms of gratitude, or any kinds of emotions. But it’s Christmas time, so maybe that got me into the holiday spirit. My best friend had asked me if I liked this one jersey he planned on buying. This NBA jersey has one of the best colorways a jersey can have. At that time, I wasn’t planning to get him the jersey so I had told him that he should get it if he really did like it. But then he started questioning whether to buy it or not. This is the exact time my inner Santa turned on.

I really was not planning on getting anybody Christmas gifts as that is not my thing, but I had to show some gratitude to the best friend I’ve had for my high school time. With him questioning himself on whether to buy it or not, I started to persuade him not to get it. This started to work out perfectly. He would not talk about the jersey for a while. During this time, I would buy the jersey and wait for it to ship and wait for the right time to give it to him. I had to get some help with his girl by also trying to make her persuade him into not getting it anymore.

So, time continued to go by. My gift had come, and he had not mentioned the jersey once throughout the time. The time had come for me to bring the jersey to school to give it to him. It was during the small break in between periods in finals week. He took forever to appear at the place where we always hung out, but he would eventually appear. I would kneel, like if I was proposing, and asked if he would like to accept my gift. He was shocked, as were our other friends. Nobody expected me to do something like this. But here I was doing the unexpected. He obviously liked it a lot since this was the jersey he always wanted.

With this being one the only gifts I have given, this is for sure the best gift I have given. I in return received a Giants jersey from him. Maybe I should show more gratitude to the people around me and gratitude could be sent back to me.

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8 - Antonio L: My Point of View On Perspective

 

My Point of View On Perspective

Perspective is like asking the fabled question “Is the glass half full or half empty?” People will always be divided with their views and analysis of events.

Not everyone agrees with one another, so there will always be divided views on topics. To solve this issue, majority rule became a standard to solving debates. 

That’s why with every choice made by people, not everyone is happy about it because of their own views and perspectives on the matter.

Another way to put it is like this, let’s say you had the option to either stop world hunger, or cure cancer, and you could pick ONLY one. Depending on everyone’s point of view, this may be a conflicting choice.

Since every person comes from different backgrounds, everyone has had different events in their lives that might’ve swayed them to pick one over the other. And deciding who benefits from choices made and the aftermath or possible outcomes of the other choice also determines decisions.

There are rare moments in life, where everyone is in agreement with one another. Of course, these may be with less impactful decisions and don’t bring much to the world, like deciding what you’ll eat for dinner tonight. 

Even as I’m writing this, the reader already has their own perspective of what was going on through my mind as I’m typing this, but not many people will have the same view, unless they agree as a means of similar interpretations or building likeliness with another person and trying to be more relatable with them. 

“A house divided against itself cannot stand,” a quote by Abraham Lincoln can go along with the views of perspective as well. A united group has no chance to exist in the future if its people aren’t understanding of one another. Nations can fall as quickly as they grow, and my view on perspective is that people will always be in disagreement amongst everyone, and that there will always be one person unhappy with choices that are made.

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