Twe weeks ago, I left or dropped my pencil case somewhere in school building. I was so disappointed about it, because I carried my MP3 player in the pencil case. The MP3 player is a necessity for my survival in law school, because I record the lectures from professors who permitted me to do recording. Also, my MP3 player cannot be easily bought in Houson. I sent e-mails to all of my classmates, and they really sympathized with me.
But, after several days, I found my pencil case in Lost&Found office of law library. Below is the e-mail I sent to my classmates.
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Note) Sorry to mess up your mail box. If you don’t know or have any interest in my pencil case, just ignore this mail. ^_^
First of all, I really appreciate people who were concerned about my pencil case. Some of you might wonder why I was obsessed with a cheap pencil case.
I have carried a thumb-sized, multi functional, 1G bytes, MP3 player in the pencil case. Because it’s hard for me to keep track of lectures in classes, I record them using my MP3.
As I mentioned to some of you, I gave up finding the pencil case and MP3 player and bought new ones. But, MP3 players I bought from Circuit City and Best Buy were not as satisfactory as the one I used. So, I returned them and ordered the same model to Amazon.com. It was scheduled to arrive in my house at 1 o’clock.
Today, around noon, I was in a hurry to go home to get the ordered package from UPS guy. While I went to my car, I saw a gold-colored tumbler dropped on the ground of the parking lot. Well, the tumbler didn’t look expensive. I was busy. I didn’t start to rescue the tumbler and I had my autonomy not to pick up that tumbler, so there was no `special relationship` between me and the tumbler. I didn’t have any duty… ^^ But, suddenly, the tumbler reminded me of my adorable pencil case. (Well, the tumbler might whisper to me, “save me, save me. Don’t leave me here in hot ground.”) I lost the same kind of stuff a few days ago. The owner might have the same feelings that I got.
So, I took the tumbler on the ground and went to the library. I met the assistant who was in charge of Lost & Found. I already met him three times these days. I said “I got this one on the ground of parking lot. The owner might come here to get it back.” The assistant just nodded and didn’t promptly move to the inside room for Lost & Found. In the moment I turned my back and headed for the parking lot again, I just recalled my pencil case again. I gave it up, but, I wanted to check it one more time. I talked to the assistant, “You’ll go to Lost & Found room, right? Would you please check my pencil case again? It’s made of fabric and blue-colored, as you know.” Carrying the tumbler, he slowly moved to the inside room. After a few seconds, he came back. My pencil case was in his hand!!! Thank god.
I got a lesson from this episode – “Heaven helps those who help others.”
Did anyone drop a gold-colored tumbler on the ground, today? It’s in the library. ^_^
Dae-Gunn.
