The Discovery
We're going back in time to my earliest memory with this, and I know this challenge discounts discoveries of money, but, at the time I made the discovery I didn't know what money was.
I reckon I was about three or four years old at the time and I was outside the house just wandering aimlessly when I came upon a brown envelope just lying, unopened, on the ground.
My curiosity was aroused so I leant down and picked it up, wondering what this mysterious treasure might be. I inspected it, turning it over in my hand. It had writing on it but I couldn't read, but I did notice it had holes punched into one end.
I didn't know it at the time, but it was someone's wage packet and was full of cash.
As I closely inspected my treasure, the thought hit me that I should take it to Mummy, but, as I turned to head back home a strange woman who I'd never seen before snatched it from my hands and walked quickly off.
I just stood there, whimpering, and feeling slightly violated. It was my treasure, go find your own!
So I headed home with tears flooding down my face and told my mother everything that had happened. Which of course resulted in a slap for getting my shoes dirty.
A Piece of Sea Glass
Green and mysterious,
With hints of yellow and blue,
Smooth as a piece of metal,
Back into the ocean, it flew.
I had considered keeping it, obviously, but I decided against it. I wanted to leave it somewhere safe, somewhere it could stay, just waiting to be found. However, I didn't find anywhere I deemed worthy enough, so my solution was this: throw it back into the sea. After all, that was where it had come from, right? I wished that the next person who found it would let it return to the sea as well, then waded into the water a few feet, and tossed it as far as I could. Ever since then, I have done that with every piece of sea glass I found, but none of them were the same green as the first one.