Counting my blessings

7:16:00 PM Valencia Ng 2 Comments

So.... my ipad got stolen today. If you really know me, it is one thing I can't leave home without. I used to sleep near it, I brought it to the loo, I used to bring it everywhere I go.

Not everyone knows this but the last few days I had been sick - a lil bit cold and flu and after a few days of rest, this morning I finally felt ......... good. I woke up quite early and made my own breakfast and all, I made hair mask and even got time to apply it on my hair. I planned today things to be........... productive.

But because it was a good day and my sister suddenly asked me if I wanted to go with her to school. I thought........ why not. "Today is a good day!"

We took bajaj and we laughed a little bit because she said my hair smelled like egg yolk. The sun seemed so lovely through the trees near my high school. And we were still inside that bajaj when suddenly  a motorcycle with 2 people on it and the passenger on the back took the ipad out of my hand. I pulled it but he ran away easily. My wallet slipped and fell on the street. My sister screamed and the bajaj driver tried to catch the motorcycle.......... but we couldn't. Everyone watched it but nobody helped us. My ipad...............was gone.

And... I cried. I cried when we tried to detect the ipad (even when we did, we didn't know what to do with it). I cried when my sister called my parents to inform the news. I cried when I got home.

It was just.... last night when my mom and I planned to buy new ipad case. It was just this morning when I was just happy and glad that I finally got better and I thought I could finish my deadlines.

The thing is, it is easy to be grateful when things are easy. But right now, I am trying................ to count my blessing even though it is really hard.

1. I didn't lose my wallet. Luckily some people took it and brought it to a security near the location where my ipad got stolen. when we came back, he handed me the wallet with my id and atm card in it.
2. I didn't get injured. And I am still alive. So many stories when the people try to steal the hand bag or ipad or anything they hurt the victim
3. I have supporting family. My dad helped me at the police office, my sister stood there before me, and my mom said she won't be angry because she said this is a part of experience for me
4. This is  a wake up call for me, if I really want to travel the world. These bad things may happen. It is like a slap to the harsh reality
5. I still have home, computer, etc
6. I still have friends and family
7. This motivates me to help my parents to earn my own money
8. This opens my eyes to those who really care, and who don't. Who stood by my side and who never will.
9. I realize that a few seconds really matter
10. Like what my mom said, this was just a part of experience. Though it is really bad and hard to swallow...
11. I learn to let go

Here's to you, my beloved readers. Be careful. The thing is, we've heard it all before. I was careful everytime I went home alone at night or public transportation, but the moment when I wasn't careful... even just for split-seconds - I lost everything. Believe me, I played scenario in my head before over and over again  - to made the plan when bad things happen to me. But when it happened, I just didn't know what to do.  I knew that bad things happen around us, I just didn't expect for it to happen to me.

Be careful.