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What Giving Up The Aux Cord Taught Me About Sacrifice

The aux cord is something sacred.

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What Giving Up The Aux Cord Taught Me About Sacrifice
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We all know the feeling of getting into the car with all of our friends for a late night adventure or a midday escapade. The feeling of the fresh breeze flowing through your hair with the windows down and being with all your pals is a really great feeling. The one common thing that connects everyone is jamming out to the best songs on your best pal's playlist.

The one problem that everyone comes into contact with is who gets shotgun because whoever has shotgun is in control of everyone's fate: the aux cord. The aux cord keeps everyone together and the car rides rockin'. The person who has the aux cord has the most important job: to play the best of the best tunes.

Being in charge of the aux cord is a really big job. Some would say it is a bigger job than being President of the United States in this current day and age. The biggest sacrifice a homie can make is giving up the aux cord. Giving up the aux cord teaches you about sacrifice.

Because you give up the aux cord, you give up the opportunity for all of your fellow associates to rave over all your song choices. Sacrifice, according to the dictionary, is defined as, "an act of giving up something valued for the sake of something else regarded as more important or worthy."

With me giving up the aux cord, I was able to give my buddy his chance to shine. When I gave up the aux cord, it was a hard decision. I had to put the happiness of my pal before my own, which we can all struggle to do. I had a fire playlist ready to go for all of my buddies to rock to during out midnight excursion.

That night, everything changed. I knew that in my heart, what I was doing was right, but in my head, I knew I was giving something so sacred up. Deciding between my happiness and my associate's happiness was a really big step in our friendship. When he looked at me and said, "Can I have the aux cord?" I knew that I had two options: To give him the aux cord or to keep playing my fire playlist.

Eventually, I ended up giving him the aux cord because his happiness was much more important than my own. I had my time with the aux cord. I bonded with the aux cord. I knew that my time with it was over for the time being. It was someone else's time to shine and drop a fire playlist. It felt really good to give up the aux cord for that time. Because of this situation I was in, I began to start seeing the world in a whole new way.

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