Upside Down Snow Globe - The MacGuffin

The Start

I saw various snow globes many times in my life, but I only realized some of its implications a few moths ago, during my seventeenth year on Earth. Snow globes are pretty, expensive, and offer no practical value. They are the embodiment of the modern materialistic mindset: often found at tourist traps and bought at a high value as gifts and souvenirs. The only value they offer is perhaps a sense of awe that decays rapidly with repeated sightings. We can argue that they have sentimental values, but I rebut that all objects can have sentimental values, and therefor, snow globes are not better in that aspect.

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But, they are beautiful. 

Even I cannot deny that. A majestic world with castles and sky scrapers inside a transparent glass sphere is beautiful. However, when I stumbled across deeper implications behind its attractive appearance, I started to ponder about the face values of happiness.  

A world without snow is a sad one. 

The world within a snow globe is beautiful because of the white flakes that sway in liquid as it falls down onto the world. Sure, it is still nice when the flakes are not falling, but the falling flakes takes the snow globe into fantastic realms, the realms inside books and movies.

The problem is snow does not fall forever. 

Inside a snow globe, snow only fall for a few minutes. After that, the world within is no longer a fantasy. 

To make the snow fall again, we have to turn the world upside down. 

We have to create the fantasy we want. We have to be the ones who take action. If we don't, snow will not fall again, and happiness will only be fleeting. To be happy, we do not need a big snow globe, we just need to turn it upside down, again and again. We have to create our happiness.