You may have already won

You have received a believable-looking business-sized white envelope in the mail. The return address is from a company called Peerless. Printed on the envelope, in bright red letters, are the words "You May Have Already Won." Tell the story of what it is you may have won-or what it is you didn't win. Tell what you do with this envelope.


Start with: Life takes some funny twists and turns...


Life takes some finny twists and turns, and that is what has happened to me throughout my entire life; thus I am not not surprised when I received an letter saying that I have already won "something". I thought it was one of those scams that you receive a lot in e-mails; ones that say you already won something but you know that it's fake. I don't really know how the scam works because I always delete these e-mails even before reading it.

But the thing that really surprised me - I think it was the most surprising thing in my entire life, was that the sender did not write down his name (I suppose he works at the company, but I wonder why he or she would send a letter using a company envelope?). I googles the company but did not find anything about it.

The content of the letter was beyond surprising. Quite simply, the sender wrote that I may have already accomplished my goal. He or she did not even say what my goal was, leaving me to think really hard about it, but he or she was glad that I am now what he/she wants me to be, and that he's very proud of me. He/she told me to keep up the good work, and do whatever I believe in that makes me happy.

I was confused, surprised, proud, happy and frustrated all at the same time. There are not many times in my life in which I have so  many mixed emotions like this.

I would have liked to send a letter back, but there was no company address. Maybe the letter was the best gift I have ever had; it has been one of the strongest motivators for me ever since I received it.

TAKE THE NEXT STEP


You've just arrived at a two week writing retreat that you won. Write a note home listing all you plan to accomplish.


1. To go back to previous writings in this book and write more about each entry.
2. To write about my life in the most beautiful way.
3. To write an article based on my opinion of Thailand's industrial sector. Just for fun.
4. To write a funny article based on a real life story, but with lots of tweaks.
5. To finish reading "The King Never Smiles" and write a critical article on it, including the good and bad parts of the book, and what I think of the book in general. I will write about what I agree and disagree about it.
6. To write something in Thai. Anything. I haven't been writing serious things in Thai for a loooong long time.
7. To write about the types of questions I could ask Siri that are creative.