Jack in the mirror on Tuesday.

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Jack woke up on Tuesday in the body of someone else. He looked in the mirror. It’s not himself anymore. He is in doubt about what’s going on with him. It might be because of the potion he bought from the shop or something. He got the recommendation from the old woman at the shop that “you would find the true love using this potion.”

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After he used it only once, later on, on Tuesday he became someone else and it happened like this every Tuesday. He thought of doing something fun, strange, and bad at first as it would not be him. He could enjoy life on Tuesday as he wanted. When he appeared as a handsome man, he flirted with many girls, including his girlfriend to test her feeling. And he knew that she really loved him much. She said she already had a boyfriend. So he felt bad doing this.

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              He had to buy clothes and shoes in many sizes as on Tuesday he would become someone else of different sizes. He recorded how he changed his body each Tuesday on a smartphone and on a computer. He kept a diary what the fun things he has done each Tuesday for example, when he appeared as a teenager, he would be a bad boy, going to ride a motorcycle loudly on street at night, hang out in the nightlife, dancing with girls, steal some snacks from the grocery for fun as he thought if he was caught up, it would be someone else’s face. He would change to be himself tomorrow after that, the person on Tuesday was not him really.

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              One day, he appeared as a teenager. So he tried bungee jumping and hiking. He realized the quote that said, “when the heart said that you could do it, the body would be ready for it.” He would like to do bungee jumping and hiking for a long time but he was too old, when he appeared as a teenager, he took that opportunity to do so. He grabbed that chance immediately, this is a good lesson as well about grabbing an opportunity when it comes.

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              However, his girlfriend, Meria noticed his change. She thought why he had not been available on Tuesday all the time when someone sent her flowers to her as Mr.Tuesday and played a song on the radio for her as Mr. Tuesday when she is alone that she could not talk to Jack. He was confused to accept the flowers and didn’t know who Mr.Tuesday was playing a beautiful song she liked. She didn’t know that he was Jack who is shy and wasn’t the courage to use his name. 

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              So when he was not at his condominium, she came to his room and she knew about what happened in his diary. She knew that he did something on Tuesday and once he had tested her feeling. He had fun with girls and did some bad habits for fun. Even in real life as Jack, he is not the bad guy but what’s happened on Tuesday infer what he was in his heart. It’s really him as well. No matter there was no one knew about how he was on that Tuesday, but he knew it by himself. What the beautiful or ugly heart it would be, it would show one day. Even though it is inside his mind, the tiger would have claws to attack the prey. The tiger would still be the tiger; it would not be tame like the cat.

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             She said to Jack that “You did something good to me 6 days a week but for the other day, you did something bad to me. You cheated on me going to someone else. 100% minus 1% would not be 99%, for me, it is zero. It means you are not good for me at all.”

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              Jack realized that already and thought that he just sometimes would like to have fun. He asked for an opportunity to be the better Jack. He thought he would take care of her more as she is the one he has right now.

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              He said that “it’s true, no matter what he would be, he should do the good deed from inside. He should not think that he could do worse when no one would notice it or when he wasn’t himself”. He said he realized already what he should do.

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              Next Tuesday, he appeared as a superstar. He was interviewed. At first, he denied that he was busy as he would not the real superstar but he was insisted so he said about what the beauty inside was. He told people about how to do a good manner no matter no one saw what you do. It would result in one day when you do good or bad things.

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              Jack returned to talked with Meria that “As long as I have you, I don’t need someone else. If I had fun but I didn’t have you. It was meaningless. It’s like living in a palace but having no warm blanket to be warm at night. For you, if on Tuesday, I’m an old and ugly man, do you accept me?

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              Meria said that “As long as it is you, the real you, who’s always taking care of me, who always do a good deed, I always love you already. God might want to prove my love.”

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              Jack said that “I would not do a bad thing anymore even no one saw it, I still knew it myself and felt guilty all the time. I’m sorry that I had fun with the girls. But I always love you and only you. Even Mr.Tuesday, he still loves you.”

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              Meria said that “Even Mr.Tuesday, I would not love him if it wasn’t you. I love you and only you. You can trust me.”

Jack said that “Thank you for your love, I love you as well.”

Next Tuesday, he didn’t become someone else anymore. The potion instruction said “when you find the true meaning of love and moral goodness you can become yourself and being you all the time.

Then Jack and Meria love each other and are happy ever after.

July 03, 2021 12:01

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