𝙄'𝙢 𝙎𝙤𝙣𝙞𝙘, 𝙗𝙪𝙩 𝙄 𝙘𝙖𝙣'𝙩 𝙨𝙩𝙤𝙥 𝙗𝙚𝙞𝙣𝙜...

      Have you ever dreamed of becoming a leader or a king for example. And in our case, for example, the mayor, governor or president, if not the emperor. Believe it or not, I was somehow lucky enough to become one one day. But I will tell you that, unfortunately, happiness is not in your power. Why do I think so, you ask me? In response to this, I will now tell you one such story that happened to me one night.

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      I was sitting at home one night watching TV, eating my favorite chili dog and watching a live broadcast with the mayor of our village, who stood at the podium and gave his speech. He first started talking about how he was tired of ruling the village and monitoring its order. Therefore, he leaves, but before that he will leave in his place a new mayor, whom he decided to re-elect himself. And according to the majority. I myself even wondered who he would re-elect as mayor. Before that, he began to talk about Sonic the Hedgehog, that is, about me, how I more than once saved their village from the evil Doctor Eggman and what I once, when I became rich a couple of times, shared with the whole village and friends in with his own money, and also invested in other cities for the benefit and helped some factories with shelters. For this, many people love him, that is, me, and the mayor after that announced that Sonic Hedgehog would be the new mayor in the village. That is, I. When I heard the news, my eyes almost flew out of their sockets, and my lower jaw hung down, almost falling to the floor. On the one hand, I was shocked and did not believe such news. Although today is not the first of April, and our mayor is very serious. On the other hand, I was even glad about this news. After all, since childhood I dreamed of becoming at least a mayor and managing the city, and finally my dream has come true. Even then, I naively thought that being a mayor and president was cool, because you lead everyone and tell them what to do and how to live, and everyone listens to you and does everything you tell them to do. Although only now, as an adult, I realized in advance that being one is not cool, but difficult and a great responsibility. After all, mayors and presidents first of all think about their people and try to help them. After that news, I immediately went to bed and decided that maybe the mayor was joking after all and nothing like that would actually happen tomorrow.

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      How wrong I was. The next morning I woke up and just went outside from the house, so all the villagers immediately began to greet me, set off firecrackers and play our own anthem of our village. Of course, I was happy about this, but I was a little shocked and did not expect this. Even my friends and Amy herself held up signs that said "We're voting for you, Sonic!" — Long live our new mayor, Sonic Hedgehog! They even brought me some kind of throne made of gold, put me on it and carried me to the mayor's office, where I will sit and govern our village, as well as lead. I didn't even know what to do first. After all, being a mayor is a big responsibility. Having calmed myself down, I took out the work papers from the drawers and looked at them. It turned out that the mayor received complaints on various topics and he had not considered them for a long time. For example, there was a document stating that it was necessary to prohibit the removal of books from the library, so that they would not be detained for too long and would not have to pay fines. This document interested me, I took out the approval stamp and put it on this paper. Now, logically, all books can only be read in the library. Today was the first day that I began working as mayor and issued this first decree. I also examined the remaining complaints and it turned out that in our village there are problems with the supply of seeds, repairs of roads and paths are not being completed, and the streetlights are broken and are not being repaired. By the way, I myself was outraged by this and did not understand why torches and other things for repairs were not delivered to us from the cities. I contacted the presidents and it turned out that the president himself wanted to put money on us. He doesn't care about how we live here in the village. He sits there, wallows in money and freeloads like an unscrupulous capitalist, and here we are forced to suffer? He flatly refused to help our village and send things from the cities in order to take into account and eliminate all the complaints of the people, so that no one else would complain and be satisfied. Without leaving all this, I took several sheets of paper and wrote several copies of letters to other mayors and governors from other cities, so that they would tell me whether they live there poorly, just like us, or whether it is good and the president is at least paying attention to their needs? Dear State Governors and Mayors, My name is Sonic Hedgehog, Mayor of Mobiustown Village. Our president is failing to fulfill his official duties. He does not fulfill the requests and complaints of our village. If he also treated your cities and villages with disregard, then let’s hold a meeting against the current president, who does not look after our country. Having finished writing them, I sent them to every city and village.

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      Five days after that, I received responses from every mayor and governor. I was right. Our president has been in power for too long and has become completely greedy. He apparently only thinks about himself, and apparently doesn’t give a damn about the peoples and other rulers who look after their cities and villages. Interestingly, they also corresponded with each other and even suggested that they, as well as me, organize a meeting in the city, near the building of the president himself.

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      All the mayors and governors gathered in Station Square near the White House. Even Shadow himself came. Not to defend the president, of course, but to listen to our complaints and also decided to help us. Because it turned out that the president had not paid him a salary for three months. Therefore, Shadow was on our side and supported our meeting against the president. When we discussed all our complaints from our peoples, Shadow and I were the first to attack the White House, knocking down the door and burst into the office of the president himself. Only two G.U.N. soldiers guarded him. who did nothing to us. Shadow and I quickly disarmed them and surrounded them along with the president. — Hello, President, we’re here to check on you! — What other test? You are mayors and governors. I am higher in rank than all of you. Why did you burst into my office? — President, we don’t intend to tolerate this anymore. You don’t follow the country, but think only about yourself and money. We have all complained to you that you do not give our towns and villages support, food, money, things, etc., so that we can make our lives better with our residents. — And you haven’t paid me for three months now for guarding you and carrying out your instructions. — added Shadow. — Yes Yes. You don’t pay anyone a salary at all, and you don’t even give us money so that we pay anyone a salary. We are not happy with what you are doing in your White House while we are there breaking our backs for the sake of the nations. — And I won’t protect you from them. — added Shadow. — Agent Shadow, how are you talking to me? You're fired? — Not fired. I haven't worked for you for so long. And generally speaking. You have been removed from the title of President for not looking after the country. You will be given a replacement for the new President. — What? — he was indignant and the governors of Texas and Maine grabbed him by the hands and carried him into a police car. — Get your hands off me! You have no right! I'm the president! I order you to let me go! Police, arrest them! — What more! — the policeman answered and opened the door, allowing the governors to put the president in the back seat of their car, after which he was locked inside. — JUST YOU WAIT!!! WHO WILL THEN RULE THE WHOLE COUNTRY INSTEAD OF ME??? — he shouted from the car. — Who? For example, let Sonic Hedgehog be our new president! At least he is an honest mayor and a hero to all of us. He will certainly monitor our entire country carefully and will give the best for the people. Sonic will probably be a better president than you, capitalist. — Shadow answered. I was shocked by what I heard. Did Shadow propose me as a candidate for the new president? Interestingly, other mayors and governors discussed this and decided it was a good idea. They all agreed and decided that I should be the new president. I was in such shock that my jaw dropped. First I was appointed mayor of the village, and now I suddenly became the new president of the entire country. Of course I was happy, but I said: — I would love to, guys. But I can not. I didn’t even want to be mayor. After all, being a mayor, governor, and especially president is a great responsibility. We need to look after the people so that they are happy and live well without any problems. However, this is all difficult for me. I'm probably not ready for such a life yet. So I'm sorry, but I'll probably give up and also give up the title of mayor and just be Sonic again. — But, Mr. Hegehog, who will be the new president and mayor of our village then?” — What about Shadow? — I suggested, and the hedgehog was even happy. He immediately agreed. He promised that he would monitor the order in the village and the country until a new honest citizen was found, ready to become the mayor of our village and the president for the whole country. Everyone agreed with my condition and Shadow eventually became the president of our country. Well, as for me. I returned to the village, renounced the title of mayor, telling the same thing to our people there. Of course, they understood me and instead of me, a friend became the new mayor, a man who promised to monitor the order in the country and be the most responsible for this. I returned home and began to live an ordinary life again, like all citizens. Therefore, I will give you all advice and a lesson that I myself learned a long time ago from this life. Being a mayor, governor, and especially president is a big responsibility. You must think about your people, and not yourself, help all the people who rely on you, pay attention to all complaints with requests for support, decide something somewhere at the request of someone, and so on. It's all very complicated. What is especially unfair is that not everyone understands this and the only couples are those rulers who do not look after the people at all, but think only of themselves, as corrupt officials. In this regard, it is probably better for the people to live without a king and on their own, so that they can decide for themselves how each person should live in his own way.