“The Adventures of Possessive Voice: Everything’s Mine!”.

Preference: Today, flying home in the plane — well, I'm still in it now — I felt that familiar anxiety. I've always been afraid of heights, and especially this time, with everything covered in white clouds and me sitting in a cramped space, forgetting even about the seatbelt. The messenger app kept showing an error, which made the boredom even worse. I leaned back in my seat, closed my eyes, and tried to relax, but my thoughts just wouldn’t stop.

Then, in that moment, when the silence became almost unbearable, something strange appeared in my mind. For no reason at all, I suddenly remembered a grammar rule about Possessive Voice. And just like that, as if by magic, he appeared — a small, funny, slightly messy little character, with big glasses that kept slipping off his nose and bright "MY!" stickers stuck all over everything. From that moment, the story just started to come together on its own, and I couldn’t help but imagine it in detail.

And when I finally get home, I really want to eat.

The Story of Possessive Voice

One day, a small little character named Possessive Voice went into a café. He was so busy that he didn’t even notice he had taken someone else’s chair. His face quickly turned gloomy when he saw someone sitting next to him, also drinking coffee. "This is my chair!" he loudly said, grabbing a bag that was on the chair. "This is my bag!" he added, and immediately tried to stick a "MY!" sticker on it. But the sticker stuck so strongly that he had to pull it off, leaving holes in the bag.

People around him started to look at him in surprise. He seemed not to notice that all these things belonged to other people. He kept saying, "Everything’s mine!" and tried to take other people’s cups and spoons until the waitress came and took everything off his table. "Are you crazy?" she asked. "Don’t take anything!" But Possessive Voice just winked and said, "I’ll take it next time." The waitress rolled her eyes, and people around started to laugh.

In the end, Possessive Voice got so carried away that he even tried to claim the clouds in the sky, or at least the nearest rain! But when he tried to approach the clouds with a huge "MY!" sticker, the clouds just floated away, laughing. At that moment, Possessive Voice realized that maybe it’s not always a good idea to take everything.

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