Jump Drive Lost

WAYNE’S WORDS
Volume 4 Number 07
Jump Drive Lost

Well, here I am again – much later than anticipated. What’s new? It seems like I always have the good intention of writing my blog more often and then I turn around and it is 20 years later. Argh! Curse you Father Time and your never ending march toward the future!

Actually I was going to do this about a week ago, but I went to my car to retrieve the jump drive I have all of my blogs on and it was gone. I had that thing since August 12^th of 2007! It is always in the Speed Racer coffee cup in my car! Gone?! Where would it be? I cannot believe I lost it. Once it went through the washer AND the dryer…. Still worked. Another time it was sucked up by the most powerful car wash vacuum cleaner on Earth. The attendant and I dug it out of the debris canister and…Viola! Still worked. Now it is lost. I’m sure it still works, but not for me.

All my blogs are online, but I had a method. My budget was also on the jump drive. I had to recreate it. By the way, the new version seems to leave me with less money! DAMMIT! I had another spreadsheet that figures my commission each pay period. Made a new one. There were all kinds of very personal letters and such. They’re just gone now. Also gone and irreplaceable are the pictures. I am hoping many of them were duplicates, but I fear there were many that were not.

I have looked everywhere - except, of course, where it currently is. I have looked under every stick of furniture in my home. I have looked at my bosses home (I babysat his dogs for a weekend). I have looked at the office (which is the last place I remember actually having it for sure). I have searched my car. Nothing. Nowhere. No how.

I’m generally very good about not losing things, but this time….sigh.

I guess that jump drive is much like anything else in life. If you are not very careful with it – poof – it is gone. This can be said for friends, family members, lovers, etc.

Sure losing a person in your life may not actually be your fault. They may do something that results in your loss. They may… decide it is time to move on down the road, realize that some differences are too great, want to do different things than you, start to like different things or a different lifestyle than you, visualize a future that doesn’t include you, believe that they need to experience life without you, get the idea that they have grown beyond you. Hell, they may even just die. None of these things are necessarily your fault - although, some of them could be partially your fault.

In the rare instances that I HAVE lost things, I have always said to myself that I need to take better care of my stuff. That is a sentiment that also holds true with the people in your life.

Again, some people will disappear from your life through no fault of your own, but you still need to take better care of them. You need to realize that life and relationships are fluid and either can end without warning. So while any given person is in your life you really need to “take care of them.” This means that you cannot take them for granted. You need to tell them and show them how much you do care for them. You need to cherish each and every moment you have with them. Yes, even the dreary, dull moments, because you will even miss those once someone is gone.

I am going to go. Just remember – anything or anyone could disappear from your life before you awake in the morning. So, take care of your stuff.

Until Next Time,
Wayne

PS If you see my jump drive, please return it to me. PLEASE!!!!