TWO LESSONS

I learned two valuable lessons in a short time quite recently

They had to do with my smart phone and, of all things, it’s lithium battery.

Since the day we retired we’ve been recording a 1 second video every day

A 1 second reminder of daily remembrances we’ve made along the way.

We have 1 second snippets of the mountains and the changing of the leaves

Of birthdays, movies, restaurants, of our family on Christmas Eve.

We recorded different foods we’ve made, when we painted our front room

We have s’mores around the campfire and one new bride and groom.

We’ve recorded many of our daily walks, kids concerts, even birds in a beautiful ballet

All these daily memories ended up in our 1 second a day.

They were stored in an App on my phone where we could keep them safe and near

The final viewing would be September 29th...the end of our first retired year.

Well, the other day my phone was acting strange, the battery kept running out

“Can you fix it?” I asked the Verizon lady. She said, “Without a doubt.”

She did something called a factory reset, it was successful and it didn’t cost!

Now the battery is working great...but our 1 second a day App was lost.

“I forgot to mention that App,” I confessed to Deborah, “this tragedy is all on me.

I’m the reason for the loss of all those memories.”

“Jim,” Deborah said shaking her head, “not true, for it seems very clear to me

If we hadn’t made those memories...that would be the tragedy.”

Life is funny isn’t it, as we daily muddle through it?

Sometimes it’s not so much what we see but the way we choose to view it.

Lesson 1: It’s not all that important...the pictures and videos we are taking

What is important, every day, are the memories we’re making.

Lesson 2 Is even more subtle...once shared...this rhyme...I’ll pack it up

If you’re storing pictures on your phone...don’t forget to back it up!