Hall Ticket Miracle

This happened in the summer I was to appear for my CA Foundation Examination . I had to submit some forms in order to receive my Hall Ticket from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India. I duly filled up all the forms (Form A, Form B, Form C, Form D .. the list was endless), stuck 2 passport size photographs, got it attested by my periappa (who is a chartered accountant) and submitted them at the institute. After submission I realized that one of the forms got missed out and was still with me. I panicked and checked with the institute if they would accept it . I even took my father along to convince them . The Institute refused to accept it saying all the applications already submitted are on their way to New Delhi and they cannot accept one single form. I had to purchase another application and do the whole process again. Some days later I got a speed post from New Delhi which informed me that my application (the first one) was incomplete and to please mail the missing form. I did so. Eventually I received 2 hall tickets with different exam centres. I announced to my parents that I shall use the second hall ticket as the first one seemed very unlucky thus far. I kept the second hall ticket safely in my study table drawer and didn’t bother about the first one. Few weeks later, it was the day before my first exam. My father and I decided to visit the exam centre that morning so as to familiarize ourselves with the route (so we would not get lost and take a long circuitous route the day of the exam) . That evening as I was readying my exam kit (pens, pencils, erasers etc) , I went over to my study table drawer to take out my hall ticket. Imagine to my shock the drawer wouldn’t open. It was stuck!! I panicked!! All of us in my house struggled for over 2 hours to open the drawer in vain. There was no way I could write the exam without the hall ticket and it was too late to apply for a duplicate hall ticket … I was in tears.. Everyone at home were throwing a fit and accusing each other for what happened… Suddenly someone remembered about the till now forgotten first hall ticket. Dejectedly I admitted I had no idea where it was as I’d carelessly cast it away when it had arrived claiming it was unlucky. But my ever dependable mother said she had safely put it away in her cupboard. I was overjoyed!! I just couldn’t believe my luck!! It isn’t everday we receive 2 hall tickets for the same examination. Had I not got 2 hall tickets, I would not have been able to write my exam.. all my classes and effort would have gone waste and I might have just dropped the course altogether due to frustration. What happened that day was a miracle according to me!! I remember thinking after that incident.. “There is a God .. !!! “