People kept on saying that everything happens for a reason... and I really believe that saying until now. It's like it's always the unexpected things that suddenly happens in our life that makes us wonder why things happen.
As a person who is quite aware of my stuff and making sure they're intact and also you can say that I am a good at taking care of things, some things would just go missing in action and you wonder where did you place them?
Or maybe some times they will just break down on it's own not because of misuse, but probably overuse and through time just like my last power bank that was given to me by one of the guys I met online as his birthday gift for me.
The photo of the cloth bag I posted here was a birthday gift of the mom of my friend. I know you'll be wondering what's the connection? You aren't even talking about romantic stuff right? Of course I wasn't talking about romantic stuff in here. This cloth bag was indeed one of the birthday gifts I got during the first year of pandemic lockdown along with that pink power bank that one of the guys I used to go out with gave to me.
The thing was at the time with one of my dates with a guy back in 2023, I had to pull out this cloth bag as their brown paper Kraft bag for take out didn't have a handle for them to hold. So here I was offering my cloth bag so they (the guy and his mom) have a handle to hold comfortably. A quick backstory: As we put the Kraft bag inside my cloth bag, I was wondering if they would really make me carry my take-out as we are about to leave the restaurant premises since they didn't immediately hold the cloth bag to show initiative that they will be the ones carrying it. So, I stood up, and took the cloth bag with their take out food inside only for the guy's mom to see it and immediately told me to give it to her son.... and so I did.
Even if things didn't work out between me and this guy, I still haven't washed that cloth bag and it served a lot of purpose on the travels that I've been through and everything else. Maybe my go-to eco bag because it was so small and it's not taking a lot of space inside my bag.
Then my Canada trip came, for some reason it survived maybe the first third of my trip until my main shoulder bag's strap broke down and I have to start to minimize bringing my stuff on what they call a dumpling bag. As I start to pack my stuff into my luggage (so I don't end up panicking towards the end of my trip), I realized my cloth bag is gone.
Maybe I'm just a sucker of losing cloth bags that was given by my high school friends or their relatives. I mean last time I lost a cloth bag that was given by one of my dear friends was when I was in China study tour and this time it's now.
Or maybe it's also a way of saying that it's start to leave the past behind. Like I don't need to look at the cloth bag and would have tiny flashbacks of him holding that bag - even if it was against his will because his mother said so. Same as the power bank that just naturally broke down of it's own until it becomes unusable and I have no choice but to put it on one of the SM electronic recycle bins inside their malls.
So I guess it's time to find a new official cloth bag that I could bring anywhere and as for the power bank? We'll I'm not a huge user unless I go to abroad and my last trip to Canada, my youngest sibling lend me his.
Here is leaving the unnecessary past behind and start to write a new chapter with the remaining things you have and who knows when their chapter with your life end.
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