How The Story The Man Bought A Hat

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The Hat With Many Stories The man bought a hat. Such an odd sentence to start with. Now you may be wondering why this story begins with such a vague, broad statement. Well, there is much more to this story, you see this wasn’t just any hat. This was a hat that saw the world. It was the hat that looked into the lives of every living, breathing thing on this planet. It had many journeys and when the man put the hat on, he too could see the world. From the beginning of life, to the final moments before death and everything in between. On a cold, wet day in the bleak December this man with the hat went on a miserable walk as he focused too much on his shoes trying not to step in the foggy water, that portrays the idea that if you step in it you too will become a part of it, He bumped into a pregnant woman about eight weeks along who is going to be a single mother because her husband tried saving her in a flood and died in so doing. And the man who for his whole life thought about nothing but himself could see the woman's daughter's hand pressed against her stomach. The man could hear …show more content…

He saw good in everything and in everyone’s stories. But that’s just the beginning. He never saw anything bad until as he was walking he met a man whose whole life had been stripped from him. His five year old son Jameson had drowned in a pool a week before he was supposed to visit him and his fiancee. The doctors completely revived him but his heart failed. This man and his family had gone through hell and back but still have not got to live happily because they know that no matter what , Jameson can never come back home into the loving arms of their own that now feel so empty. And that’s what kills this man the most is that feeling of knowing that you can’t do anything to take what happened

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