Today I realized that I had lost an entire folder containing my writings. What happened was that my laptop had crashed and the IT folks at my workplace had taken my data backup. And when they fixed the thingie, they put the data back in. Now this was a couple of days ago, and today as I was going through my stuff, i realized this folder was not there at all. I called up the IT folks…they were surprised at how could like happen blah blah…and they had deleted the copy on their server machine just this morning… bottomline was that that folder that contained a lot of what I had written over the last several months was gone, never to come back!
It made me remember that age old cliche of how we dont appreciate stuff when its around, and realize its worth only when its gone forever. This folder was even more precious to me as it contained stuff which I had written to express my thoughts over so many things that matter. I literally used to view it or save something in it everyday. And as fate would have it, this was the only folder that didnt get backed up for some reason! I had begun to take that folder for granted, thinking it would be there always..
At least folders, unlike people, can be backed up & stored on multiple media to last forever. Maybe sometimes you need to sit back and think about the importance of people in your life, and not get too entangled with work pressures and other unimportant stuff at the expense of what really matters…and as per that Chinese saying, today is the second best time to plant that tree…basically doing whatever that adds a moment of joy that we will live to cherish in that unerasable memory bank on our top floor!
