Gone! Lost in a second. I don’t know exactly what happened, but my hard drive got corrupted on Saturday night. I tried calling the experts at Hewlett Packard and they did their best to get everything back. Alas, nothing survived. I have had to rebuild my computer from scratch.
I consider myself lucky. Sure, there may have been some things I have written, songs that may never be sung and addresses that are lost, but I have probably cleared out tons of garbage I would never looked at again and never have missed.
Also, I will find out who my friends are. Since I don’t have their addresses any more, they will have to contact me. If they don’t miss me, then it’s pretty clear that they don’t think of me that often.
In spite of all of what I have mentioned, this is not why I consider myself lucky.
There are people who lose everything every day. Perhaps a fire has claimed their home. Maybe there is nothing left after a flood or a tornado. These people have to start over with everything.
While inconvenient, what I lost doesn’t even come close to those who lose everything. The way I look at it, I just got a little bit of deep spring-cleaning, that’s all. I am, indeed, quite fortunate.
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