April 20 2021
People always say that the value of something will only be realized when it is gone. I have always agreed on that even though I have not really experienced it before, well that is until today. It is really eye opening to experience something so poetic but at the same time so realistic and seems so basic. So let us start from the beginning.
I woke up at around 5:35 in the morning. Pretty specific you say? Well that is because I was waken up by the sound of chimes on my phone. Yep you guess it right, I have set an alarm. There is something magical about alarms though, when you set it to a different time than you are accustomed to, there is a tendency that you’ll wake up before the alarm even goes off. I don’t know if it’s excitement or what. But that just seems to always happen to me. Anyhow, I woke up, said my prayers and off to the comfort room I go.
Checked mails, inboxes and of course, browsed through the morning greetings of the fellows back on noise.cash. I also checked the weather as I usually do every day. It was looking like a fine day all day so I decided to wash the car a little bit better. Don’t get me wrong, I always wipe down the car because that is how I was taught to care for things. You may say that the car is not a necessity but in today’s situation I am sorry but I beg to differ. With all the things happening around, convenience is not the only thing a service could bring you but also that extra level of safety. Commuting now via public transportation has that added risk of the virus’ transmission. At least if you are travelling with a private vehicle there is that illusion that you are like inside your own bubble. And I like that. Anyway back to cleaning.
Armed with a cleaning rag and a small bucket filled with water I went out to the parking space. The building complex provides ample spaces for each car so I could move around and about the vehicles and perform a simple cleaning.
And will all that ready to go, I proceeded in washing and wiping the surfaces of the car. While cleaning, I exchanged pleasantries with the other tenants of the building that are coming and going through the metal gates. I even exchanged a short story with the caretaker of the building who was sitting a few feet from me while he was having his breakfast and sipping his coffee.
I also observed the couple from the building just walking about in front of the gates. Their morning walks are kind of short. From the building to the small store across the street. I say across the street but really the distance was no more than ten feet. I always see them around together although I have not really talked to them yet. The guy was a little short for the tall woman but she doesn’t seem to boss him around. She even went to buy the guy cigarettes while he sat beside the gates and drank his coffee. We exchanged smiles and I continued wiping down the car. Wax in, wax off.
Greeting people going and coming home from work I counted like five people who went home at that time and 3 people off to work. Time passed by slowly and I was working quite a bit of sweat. I wiped the final touches on the car’s surface and I am done. Tossed the rag into the then empty bucket and I locked the car doors. I picked up the bucket and went to the gates.
And just like that, I was left without any option but to scratch my head. Why? The gate is locked. I do not have the keys with me and I am outside the gates. I am outside the gates! No need to panic, I still have 10 minutes to prepare for work. Wait…I only have 10 minutes!
I paced back and forth around the building thinking and looking for someone to let me in. No one was there, the caretaker was gone. The couple was gone. There were no more people coming and going through the gates. They were all there before, I did not need them. But now that I do need them, they were no where to be found. And then I realized that it was pretty much the same as the saying, “you’ll never know the real value of things, until they are gone.” And I was like “wow”. And I have nothing else to do but smile on that realization and my own stupidity.
Thankfully after another 5 minutes of pacing back and forth the caretaker emerged from nowhere and let me in with a smile on his face as he said “Oh, did they lock you out?”
Well, lesson learned and I attached the gate and home keys to my car key. All is well I think.
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Relate it somehow you just see the important of a thing when it's gone and after you'll regret. Just for like this I stopped being a working student because I missed so much my family and then when I'm stay at home I just realized that those work is very important to me. But then it's okay too my family just support my study.