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I was surfing the internet in an internet cafe this afternoon. I was searching and downloadingnew songs. Since i was in the cafe, I have to use a flash disk in order to save the songs I downloaded. Then, when I was about to remove my flash drive, I was surprised because it's no nowhere to be found. It was lost! Stolen by someone I do not know. The cafe has many people enteringand exiting. Who stole it? I do not know. What I know for that very moment is that it's lost. It wouldbe very impossible to retrieve it again considering that a flash disk (travelling disk) is such a small device. It's gone, it's lost.
On my way home, I was thinking about how stupid I was. How fool I was not to notice that someone is stealing my flash disk! How stupid I was!
To ease myself of depression, I reminded myself of how little that thing is. That it's value is not thatgreat for me to grieve so much about it. And as I was thinking about it, I came into realization about the meaning of lost in my life. And I came into the realization that how you accept lost depends so much on how much you value a thing. The more you value it, the more you grieve over it.
But how do we put value on a thing. For a person who has much, a little flash disk may not be of great value. But for a poor student or for someone earning a minimum, even this little thing can mean so much. This leads me into another realization. That how you value a thing depends so much on how muh possessionsyou have. A wealthy businessman may not notice a single bread on his table, but for a beggar, this may meana meal for the day.
In conclusion, we all experience lost in one way or another. We may respond to lost in same process, but we never respond in the same way and intensity. The way we repond to lost depends so much on the valuewe put unto it. And the way we value things is affected by how much we have in our life and on what is truly important for us.
Go on grieve for it is normal. But as you grieve over the material things, try ask yourself why. And in the end of that day, ask yourself what is important to you. What truly matters to you.