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| The Words |
When I saw the movie, The Words over a year ago, I could relate to the feeling which one gets when they lost a story they had written. For one, one would never be able to get the words back in the original form, one could try but it will never be the same especially when the story runs over pages. However, I'd never really experienced such before. It's not like I'd always been careful, but luck just never played against me.
Four days ago my phone was stolen, and that was my saddest day for this year. I wasn't pained because of the phone itself, but the information it had on it. To be honest, I could part with the phone save for my documents on the phone. There were tons of pictures, half-written articles, notes, web documents and other documents on the phone. To sum it up, the phone was priceless.
Half of my documents weren't exactly expendables, but I'm someone who easily cut my loses and move on. However, all along, it didn't daunt on me that I'd two almost finished true stories on the phone. I realized that 45 minutes ago, and I almost drop a tear because I'm definite I'll never get the stories back in their perfect form. And It's probable I'll never write them again.
I learned two lessons at the end;
1). What is worth doing is worth doing on time: I've almost completed the two stories that almost took a tear from my eye since last year, but I kept stalling and stalling till I finally lost them. Had it been, I completed them before my phone got stolen, they would be online right now.
2). Back-up is necessary: It's good to always keep other copies somewhere else because anything can happen at anytime.
