RE: Qurator's Mischievous Mondays | Secret Santa's Mix-Up

The Secret Santa or Secret friends as it is called in my country is a tradition for the end of the year holidays and in schools teachers usually do this activity so that children learn about the true value of giving and friendship without focusing on gifts as such. In a group of fifth grade Maria was one of the most popular in the classroom for her good grades and relationships with everyone, in an exchange she had to give the teacher a gift, that was a big commitment and put her parents in trouble because you could not give her just any gift, with all the effort her parents got Maria to give the teacher a beautiful red leather purse, but to her bad luck she received an invisible friend gift that day she could see with her own eyes, an introverted boy who had not noticed her presence during the previous months, that boy was carrying a medium size gift bag and when he approached Maria she got excited imagining a gift out of the ordinary and so it was, when Maria took out her gift in front of everyone, there was a terrifying silence, no one could believe what they were seeing.

Maria's gift was a vase 😮😫😵‍💫🙃, she could not with the impression and with trembling hands she almost dropped it, but she was able to keep it in the bag to continue with the activity. She felt disappointed because she could not explain the reason for that gift, as a child anything for the hair or accessories would have been useful, she thought that they had confused the gifts but it was not so.

She came home with the desire to cry and helplessness but her mother made her see that this gift was useful as well as beautiful. Years went by and the vase remained as the center of her hairdresser, decorating her room with flowers, until one day it broke into several pieces and Maria realized that this gift was special.