I just got word– it is the hard drive.

Here’s the thing.  I have four talks to do this month of February and the lessons are in that hard drive. I decided to get a new household help and I already have my own personalized “manual”– with English-Tagalog versions– and it is in that hard drive. All the lesson plans I have crafted from scratch in an attempt to get myself going and psyched-up for homeschooling– they are all in that hard drive. All the customized household management stuff I had made that suit my system of doing things? …In that hard drive. Files upon files of downloaded material from whatever “research” I have made– you guessed it! In that hard drive. Most of all, drafts and thousands upon thousands of pictures representing MEMORIES are in that hard drive.

I am asking myself, “Why did you not create back-up files?? How could you have been so careless??”

I guess the thought ALWAYS crossed my mind. It’s just that there was always something “more important” that I had to take care of at the times that that thought came up. And I am sure all those things that were “more important” that I just had to do were valid. They were not excuses I came up with just to avoid backing up my files. Who wouldn’t want to have the security of having back-ups??

Here’s the lesson here:

Some things may not seem as important as others….until they start screaming “Urgent!”

Another thing:

Some things will never even scream “Urgent!” or “Important!” ….You just realize they are, when they’re gone.

Also,

“Stuff” are just stuff, and will always be just stuff. They are placed on earth as tools to help us, thank you Lord for that. However, it is a dangerous thing to be so reliant on them, as many of us are (Yes! I’m talking to you Thammie!!!). They can just snap and break and….be gone. Just like that.

Reality check: Am I letting technology take over how I function??

….I think I’m just having withdrawal symptoms. That, or denial syndrome.

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