"a good day for me"

Just wanted to type this out. Been in my mind too much.One of my childhood friends passed away early last year. I still think about him often, especially when I play Pokémon because that was our thing. But I've never been the kind of person to have thoughts of "our loved ones are still here watching over us." It always felt pointless from the here and now. Two months ago I was looking through old pictures and I had the fleeting thought of "Hey if you're still here, send me some sort of sign" and then started Pokémon again.A few weeks ago I had forgotten about that moment. I was at work, teaching. Some of my students love playing Pokémon Go and sometimes they show me what they're catching and we bond over that. But they never really show me their teams or anything. But before class one day, one student was waiting to hatch an egg and made me watch as it hatched.Out of all possibilities, it was a shiny Magby. Magby was my friend's favorite and he always had a full team of super trained level 100 Magby. It took a second to click and then I just was in confused shock, now remembering that I wanted a sign.I haven't played Go since the summer it came out, so I'm not sure how rare shinies are. I'm also just still amazed how many Pokémon are in the game now.Anyway, because I'm still a realistic person I'm going to think of it as coincidence. But it's a nice thought and it definitely made me smile that day.Thanks for reading if you took the time to get through the wall of text :) If anyone else has similar stories, I'd love to hear them. via /r/pokemon https://ift.tt/386fmNH