Greetings! This is my first Reddit Secret Santa. While I was a bit skeptical and had heard about people in the past not receiving any gifts, I began to worry. I religiously checked back to the Reddit Gifts website until one day. There was a notification. My gift had been sent.

The postal carrier dropped the package off at the front door. "Wow this is a large box", I thought. I looked on the label to see who it was from and to whom it is intended. I saw my name and then "c/o bodet328". "Holy s#!t! This is the reddit secret santa gift!" I exclaimed.

Upon opening this monstrous box from Amazon.com, there was yet another box. It was blue. A deep blue. Deep like the oceans depth. It was accompanied with a wondrous ribbon that wrapped around it and held it closed. This ribbon had no beginning, nor end. It was too perfect to cut it. So I had to slide it off, carefully. On this ribbon, there was a card attached on which some gracious words were written. This card says, "Hello fellow redditor! Hope you enjoy your gift and Happy Holidays!"

Upon removing the silky ribbon and opening the blue box, there it was. BROWN PAPER! Just what I wanted!!

But wait.

There was more.

For through my frolicking with said paper, something else fell out. It was the real gift. A 24 set of Prismacolor dual tip markers, in a fantastically organized case. Each marker has its own place. There was a place for everything, and everything in it's place. And marker was organized by color. The cool greens and blues on one side, with the warm reds and yellows on the other.

I didn't know what to say. I am a university student studying Industrial Design. Markers are the basis on which you help communicate your ideas. They can make ideas look amazing. But they tend to be expensive. Sure, shading has its place. But making something to the point that not just you want it, but others want it, takes more than a pencil. It takes color.

Color like this

While I am still a second year student, these colors will indeed help me and get me to excel in many ways. So thank you redditor. Perhaps one day we will meet and I can thank you in person, possibly with a personalized drawing of whatever you would like. Until that day, thanks again for making my first Reddit Secret Santa one I will not forget.