I brought my boyfriend with me last night to my grandma’s house to celebrate Christmas, and the whole family played a raffle game, where you picked a yellow piece of paper, and if it was blank - you’d have lost, and if you had a number on you paper - that’s the amount of money you won. (:
When my aunt came around with the Christmas bag of yellow papers, I prayed really hard that the winning number would skip me and go to Vee, so he’d be happy and feel a little more comfortable with my family (: . I just wanted him to have fun and be a little closer with my family, so I figured I’d rather have nothing and increase his chances of him getting something. (:
When we opened our slips of paper - I won the single $100 prize, and he won one of the four $20 prizes.. so we both won (:
It reminded me of Freshman year, when I ran for SGA office. After all 11 of the candidates gave their speeches, the freshman class was held in the auditorium to cast their votes on a piece of paper. They had to put a check next to 5 names. At the end, the candidates asked eachother who they voted for, and every single one of them started out with ‘myself…’ and then ‘john, camilla, lauren.. (etc)’ and then when it came to me, they were all surprised when I didn’t name myself. I decided to vote for everyone else, because if I was going to win - I didn’t want to think my one selfish vote was what made the difference.
And a couple days later, I was announced as the SGA President of my class (:
It’s little things like that, that let me know a little bit of selflessness isn’t unseen - atleast through God’s eyes.. and that’s enough for me (:
Merry Christmas!
