The Book of (Holiday) Awesome by Neil Pasricha

Author:Neil Pasricha
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2016-04-21T10:09:35+00:00

When your third grade arch nemesis gives you a Valentine’s Day card

Did your school have a social ladder?

My school sure did, and I was sitting pretty on the bottom rung, people. How could I tell? Well, for one thing, I was always picked last for dodgeball in gym class. For some reason, my giant glasses and tiny, spaghetti-noodle arms didn’t inspire the jocks, and they usually took the boy in the wheelchair and the girl with crutches before me. Social status was also on display on the bus—from back to front, from jock to runt, it was a Pyramid of Cool bouncing home from school every day.

But above all! More than anything! Our social ladder was on display for the great big moment on Valentine’s Day. Yes, long before the One Card For All communist classroom manifesto was enacted, it was all about how many cards you collected on February 14th. That was when Kleenex boxes were tissue-papered with pink hearts and transformed into delightfully tacky mailboxes hanging from the side of your desk.

Everyone wore red, white, and pink to school, the teacher brought cupcakes, and soon it was time for the great big moment of racing around the room to drop your paper valentines into people’s paper boxes.

You could count on getting valentines from a few close friends, but everyone else was a crapshoot. Some people would bring one for everyone. Others forgot completely. And sometimes you’d score a surprise valentine from your third grade arch nemesis that made it all worth it.

When the kid who shoves you in the mud at recess asks you to be his forever . . . well, that’s a tiny little moment of

AWESOME!

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