“I spent the day with my dog.”
“What kind of dog is it?”
“A Boston Terrier.”
“Oh wow, do you have pictures?”
“I did, but I lost my camera and so all my pictures.”
“Oh no, you know these days it’s so easy to keep your photos backed up in the cloud, so you’ll never lose them.”
“I know. I have Google storage and Verizon cloud, but I just never get round to doing it, because it isn’t important.”
“Well, maybe you will now.”
“Maybe. But now there’s an opportunity to create a set of new memories.”
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The differences in people are revealed by the smallest truths. I live in a world of online backups, local backups – duplicated and a system that allows me to recover files lost just a minute ago. Anything less would make me nervous.
There are also those people that never back up because they simply don’t know. Or they have never lost their phone and with it their only copy of photos, phone numbers, and notes.
And then there are people like Alex. He knows all about that. He just doesn’t care. He is not driven by the same triggers that drive me. He lives in the moment. For the moment.
What day is it?” asked Pooh.
It’s today,” squeaked Piglet.
“My favorite day,” said Pooh.–A.A. Milne
Hi John I enjoyed this as i get older I seem to enjoy the moment more and more. What was important 10 years ago just isn’t important anymore. I like the duality of your story
Many thanks Larry, I wish I could live in the moment more … a lot more … now I think about it:-)
I hear you my friend