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As far as I am concerned everything comes in threes. My mom says that thinking this way goes against the unexpectedness of life. Like I am trying to predict the future. I'm not, but say i stumbled apon the power of seeing exactly what would happen to me in any particular day. Would that really be a bad thing. See if I had more of a supernatural ability beyond hoping that Waverly's Law of Threes- as my younger brother calls it- holds up. Then I would have been able to tell you that my life would split into three before and after chronicals following my parents divorce. I wouldn't have dressed all nice for the first day of school to impress the sweet, popular, and caring quarterback of the football team. I definitely wouldn't have taken his best friend to be the cynical teenager I thought he was. And I think I would have payed more attention to art...yeah. I think that my life would be a lot more together if I could predict the future. However, since humans haven't created time travel and since psychics are just swindlers, I have to stick to my Laws of Threes. My brother used to sit down on the hardwood floor of my fathers house and ask me "Why do you believe in threes so much." The first time he said that I told him to look outside, where the California coast spread out in front of the house. I told him to watch the waves and he would. I asked him if he saw how the waves came in threes. He's a smart kid, he would nod and say that they learned about this at school and how obvious it was that they came in threes. I would say that I believe in the Laws of Threes because the ocean believes in it. The ocean had been around forever, so maybe if i follow what it thinks then I can actually make it through high school with out doing or going through something awful.

Everything comes in threes like waves one is small, one average and the last one catastrophic.

My life broke into three sections. After the divorce, After Wally Workman, and After the hospital visit.

Looking back on my year, I can assure you. Absoultely everything comes in threes.