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What I Learned This Christmas Eve
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It’s 1:00 am on 25th December 2011. It’s Christmas Day.

This blog is now alive and humming. A couple of hours back though, still on the Christmas Eve, my website was hacked. There’s a cartoon character on a black background telling me that ‘my security sucked’ when you type the address to this page.

My first reflex was, of course, panicking. I’ve never backed up the content of this blog, so the thought of losing everything I’ve had written across the years made me wanna throw up. This blog is years of journals and thoughts and pictures. This blog is everything to me. What if I lost them all?

Then I felt pissed off. How could this bad man do this to me?

But strangely then, I felt peace.

I’m the kind of guy who look for meanings behind things. Because I believe, that nothing is a coincidence. And this happening on a Christmas Eve must’ve meant to say something to me.

So while looking at the thought of never to see all of my writings again, I kinda hear it.

It says: “You’re more than a blog.”

I’m more than a blog.

More than my Facebook page and Twitter feeds.

More than just a career.

More than just a reputation, a track record, and a ‘brand’.

I’m a person. I’m someone’s son and brother. Someone’s husband. A lot of people’s friends. And hopefully, I am important to a lot of people who knows me more than just @edwardsuhadi.

It’s kinda a wake up call. Maybe I am too attached to all this. Too concerned on my feeds and posts. My pictures and funny writings.

Maybe it’s a warning, to focus on what matters. You know: living breathing people, and how you matters to them, and how they matter to you.

So if I did lose the blog, then be it. I’m ready. My life’s not over. My digital life might get a restart.

But the real Edward is going to be alive and well and still breathing, I guess.

So here’s to Mr Hacker. I know you’re reading this, so I just wanna say thank you for getting into my server and giving me a Christmas message I might not easily forget. But one lesson is enough. Please, no more, okay? 🙂

Merry Christmas folks. Spent the season for those who matter.

The picture is from when I was dating Francy way back then. 10 years ago I think, judging from how bad the photoshop is

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