The adorable person who sits beside me in one of my classes comes in, and it's obvious that he feels dead on the inside for having to attend this particular class.

He looks at me and says, "I want her to not show up, or for today to be a movie day. That's all I want."

She comes in and I tell him, "Your dreams are dead."

She starts class by talking about the reading quiz we had. Now, I'm not an idiot--I know I've done badly. I didn't even know which country she was talking about, in the quiz, and talked about a completely different area of the world. This is because I hate our assigned book--it's the first-attempt meatloaf dinner of the literary world.

So, she frowns at some of our grades, and says that, because some of us did so badly, we were going to have to watch a few videos in class to clarify the quiz questions.

He looked at me like it was Christmas. I said, "I failed this quiz so you could have movie day. Don't forget that."

"Thank you."

And that was how I learned the true meaning behind the saying, "Sacrifice one for the good of many."

[Not to be the devil's advocate, but] Did you really sacrifice anything? Did you bomb the quiz because you knew your friend would need the day to zone out? "I will fail so another can be lifted up? Maybe you could say a due, or price, was exacted, but should you call it "sacrifice"?

Sacrifice or no, everything seemed to work out for the benefit of another, which may be arguably a greater benefit.

hoho, anyways!
» invisible on 2014-04-03 10:39:04

^^^heeheheheee

» middaymoon on 2014-04-04 07:16:11

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