I havent on my laptop for the longest time - perhaps a good 8-9 months at least. I dont know why but it suddenly occur to me that perhaps its time to back up my photos from this laptop, in case it crashes without me knowing.
It has been almost 3hours and I am still sorting out my photos and trying to back them up in the external hard disk. I was looking through all my photos - it was really a "those were the days" moment. Pictures were dated back as early as 2008. My goodness, its almost 6 years already and yet they still seem fresh in my mind, like each event happened only recently.
I saw some of my friends from single to attached to married to having kids while some friends have either drifted apart or probably no longer even friends. It struck me a little. What happened to the friendship where we used to hang out together very closely in the past? I read an article, it says that if you have been friends for 7 years and more, chances are you will be friends forever. It's not true. There is no such thing as friends forever, at least that has not happened to me yet. It made me realise that friends come and go, friends changes their priority as they move onto different phases in life and you might not be a priority anymore even if you were once a priority.
Family seems to be a different thing. I once had very bad relationship with my family. No, I dont mean my parents, we have been perfectly fine. I meant my 2 brothers. We dont used to talk about our lives, but after so many things happened, we all changed our perception towards having a good family relationship. We try to make time for the family every weekend and on important occasions, making an effort to give one another some small gestures and wll wishes. Perhaps, our priorities have changed too.
Oh well, I guess that's life.
