Finally, I have redeemed my Free Starbucks Planner! Haha, I’m proud of it and I’m very happy about it. 🙂 Whew, after a month’s time of collecting coupons, I’ve finally completed the collection to redeem my planner. Yet what’s the big fuzz about it, you may ask. So what?
Was it all that important to be able to collect those coupons? Couldn’t I have bought a planner from a bookstore without the difficulty of collecting and waiting until I could get my planner?
Some people might say I could have spent less had I just bought a new planner. Some might say its just a sales gimmick to increase the store’s income at the end of the year, and I gladly participated in it. But then, so what? 🙂
For one thing, nobody forced me to drink all those cups of coffee I consumed to collect those coupons. I’ve enjoyed drinking each cup, whether it be the regular capuccino or the dark cherry mocha which is one of their specials for Christmas. Further, I’ve had a good time at the cafe branches I’ve visited, and some of those occasions were even quite productive when I was able to write fruitful articles for my blog.
Last but not the least, I was able to fulfill a sentiment I was not able to satisfy all these years that the Starbucks Planner had been made available to us coffee lovers. You see, at Christmas season, I would have a capuccino or two, enjoy my coffee and the time I spend at the cafe. During such times, I would be offered this coupon card where I would be given the chance to have a free Starbucks Planner if I could complete those coupons for a given period of time.
Year after year, this is what I would do. Drink coffee, be offered free coupons, pass the opportunity to acquire a Free Planner. Year after year, I would have a certain feeling that I could have completed the coupons, I could have acquired the planner. I COULD HAVE. But I never did. Opportunity was given, but I didn’t take it.
The same thing often happens in life. We are offered opportunities, but we refuse them, we pretend they didn’t even exist. But somewhere at the back of our minds, we are left WONDERING. We are left with our WHAT IFs and with WHAT COULD HAVE BEENS.
This year, even if just for this Christmas season, I wanted to take that opportunity to receive my free planner. This year, I claim something as mine. This year, I prove to myself that goals can be accomplished, that there are rewards received upon accomplishing those goals, and that part of such rewards is that sweet feeling of having satisfied your heart, your inner nature of knowing that blessings are always being showered upon us from above, and it is up to us to take them, and to be believe that they can be taken.
So why did I need to collect all those coupons just to redeem a Starbucks Planner?
I simply wanted that cute planner, and now I feel happy knowing that I have received what I desired! 🙂
The thing about hope is that it’s a positive force that shines the most when it’s dark. When everything’s going well, we hardly notice it’s there. But when things go against us, when our dreams fade and when we see no immediate reprieve from our troubles, that’s when hope does its best work for us.
"Where Hope Can Be Found"