Thanking My Lucky Stars
A Seussical Thanksgiving Story
Notes: I find it to be very appropriate that this story is inspired by the song How Lucky You Are. It is from Jo Jo's POV and set at Thanksgiving time one year after the events of Seussical
Song lyrics are italicized and I own no rights to anything quoted or any Seussical characters.
It is amazing how much has changed in a year. Whoville has merged with Nool and formed a huge metropolis where the jungle creatures and Whos live United. If I hadn't spoken up during Horton's trial where would we be? Still on that congested clover and largely unhappy. There was this song I remember Hearing called How Lucky You Are those lyrics still resonate with me.
So be happy you're here
Think of life as a thrill
And if worse comes to worse
As we all know it will
Thank your lucky star
You've gotten this far
I am definitely lucky that's for sure. Especially lucky that I came out alive from the Butter Battle. Many of my friends also survived including my best friend Jeff. Other people were not quite so fortunate as us and either got injured badly or died in people were a little bit older than us. I will always remember them for their bravery.
Looking back on that whole experience it definitely made me a better and stronger person. Though like most of the other cadets I often wondered what the whole purpose was behind this war. Who really cares if you eat your bread butter side up? It obviously makes no different to me. There were time when I so wanted so badly to ask the General that but I hated to sound in anyway disrespectful or defiant. I chose to say nothing as did many of my other friends.
I am thankful for my parents. They always know what is best for me. In the beginning I think they might have been reluctant to send me to the Academy and off to war. I know it must have been frightening for them to almost lose me in battle and they must have been devastated when the General delivered that news to them. I think this whole situation definitely made our family stronger.
I am thankful for friends both new and old. Especially all the new people I have met through the merger of Whoville and Nool. The Bird Girls are so nice. A few of the Wickersham Brothers have become really good friends of mine too. I look forward to all the memories we will have together in the years to come.
And of course I am thankful for Horton and Gertrude. They believed in us when others had doubt. In return we believed in them and that is was what United us all. Without them I am one hundred percent certain we'd all still be on that clover and absolutely miserable.
So indeed everyday I thank my lucky stars…. There is truly a lot to be Thankful for this Thanksgiving.
I am blessed. I am lucky. Most of all I am forever grateful.
