HANDPHONE
- Listen, late last night, I heard the screen door swing, And a big yellow taxi took my girl away Now don't it always seem to go That you don't know what you got till it's gone They paved paradise and put up a parking lot [Big Yellow Taxi, Counting Crows Feat Vanessa Charlton]I have not been born yet, when Joni Mitchell sang this song for the first time, but I guess I am very well understand what she is trying to say. Just do not take things for granted -
I guess do-no-take-thing-for-granted is just a too boring topic. Everybody seems to know about the idea but just never be able to apply it to the real life. This post will slightly contradict to what Joni tried to say. Sometime, we need to take things easy.
Last weekend, I made an appointment with one of my colleagues, No, to buy a present for one of our colleagues who decided to go back to Indonesia for good (AGAAAAIIIN?). Halfway to our meeting point, I just realized I left my handphone at home. The journey which is supposed to be relaxing is spoiled. I started to think how to contact my colleague when I reached there. The plan was:
1. Go to 711, bought something cheap so I could get coins.
2. Look for public payphone which uses coins.
3. Call my other colleague,
One, asking for
No's phone number .
4. Call her and set a specific meeting point.
I managed to perform the first step. But then, I go to few levels, to my horror, not every level has public payphone using coins. They used phonecards. There was one in level 4, but it was damaged. I gave up, I went down, try to buy public phonecards in 711, my effort provides futile. I was not giving up, I looked for money changer. And pheww, after few levels, I found one. Bought the card and complete step 3. Luckily, my colleague had not gone anywhere else. She and her family still waited for me.
When I first realized I forgot to bring my handphone, the first thing popped into my mind was how do we meet when we did not have handphone last time. Yes, thank God, with technology improvement, handphone is like everyday thing. But, sometime we become too pampered by this fact. Before I have handphone, meeting friends in mall, cafe or anything is never be a problem as long as the friend has a good intention for not being late. But when we started the era of smsin-before-meet, it just that we slowly lose our ability without calling/texting our friend before we meet.
Yes, one good point we should not take the existence of our 3G, HIgh-capacity and resolution, Expensive, Stylish handphone for granted (who will anyway?) but the other good point is we just have to be able to get back to our life where such thing does not exist. It's good for not taking things for granted, but it's also good for not afraid losing things that we held on for so long or we used to have for so long. We should realize that our life is OK without that thing.
I am not really good at this. I was not an internet addict before I went to Singapore. But now, life is not fun without internet on my side. I never had a handphone before I went to Singapore. But now, going out without handphone made me uncomfortable.
Sometime, remembering our life before we had our precious things is OK and Normal will help us to value those things. Sometime, we could not afford to be too afraid to lose something. We are OK without that before, why should we worry our life away to held on too tight for that thing. Like
D, my classmate, said "It was a plus point Bimo. You did not have it previously, so you should not you be sad when it went out of your reach". Thanks,
D. You helped my head to win the battle with my heart this time.
Catlio386[The best song ever]P.S: Don't worry your life away, my man. Just grab and live with it.
