Suppose a man
got a 32 GB flash drive when he upgraded his cell phone contract. He backed up
all his documents and many of his photos onto it. He kept it apart from his
computer, in his room, because he didn’t want to lose his data should anybody steal
his computer. This was a wary man, because he had a lot of trouble after all
his power tools had been stolen the year before.
And suppose that
one day, when this man wanted to make backups, he just could not find that flash
drive. He switched on the light, used his torch, looked in all likely and
unlikely places, he searched very carefully. But he could not find it. He was
very sad and just could not imagine where he might have placed it.
Finally he
stopped searching and used DVD’s for his backups. He missed his 32 GB though. The
flash drive was useful when he took photos to his friend’s place as well. So,
when he saw the special on 8 GB drives, he got himself one. It was very handy, but
also made him realise anew what a big loss he had suffered. He started searching
all over again.
His father, who
lived with him, asked what he was looking for. It was difficult to explain, so
the man showed him the 8 GB drive that he had bought. “Oh, it looks like those little brushes that you use to clean electric razors with” said the father who was now
searching even more than the man did. The father was constantly losing things,
so he thought of himself as a specialist searcher. While the father went
through everything in the man’s room, the man went to the father’s room though.
And there, in the box where the father kept his electric razor he found his 32
GB.
The man called
his friends and neighbours together and said “Rejoice with me, because I have
found the 32 GB that I lost!” He was very glad. But he also thought a lot.
About the ways one can lose memory. About the material Jesus used in his stories. And
how a piece of plastic can be a large amount of space. Or a brush.
George
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