Absent Mindedness

It's around 6 p.m.. I think I have almost finished my work in the department. So, I should update my antivirus and leave for the hostel. But OMG, where is the laptop? It's nowhere in the room. I am here since morning and how come I did not bother to check even once, if it was safe. But I can't think of the reason why it would vanish.  I haven't left the room unattended even for a while and anyways, today being holiday, not many people are there in the department.

Where have I left it. I am sure I had carried it with me to the department because initially, I had forgotten to take it and then when I realized, I unlocked the door again and went inside specially for picking up the laptop. I am trying to recall what had happened in the morning.  From hostel, I went to canteen for breakfast and reached department around 9.45. It means there are three possible places, where I could have forgotten it. Either I had kept it outside my hostel room while locking the door, secondly, I might have left it in the canteen and thirdly I may have kept it near the stairs while opening the side door of the department. None of them is a safe place for such things. Now, only God can take care of my laptop. And to add to the nightmare, today morning I had kept my hard disk in the same bag as laptop. It means, laptop is gone along with the data. There is no use of having a backup device... There is only one ray of hope... I have forgotten it in my room itself....

I have started praying, as I run towards the hostel. I open the room and am relieved to see the laptop resting on the bed. So, it means, in the morning I went inside specially to get the laptop, took it out from the cupboard, then, I kept it on the bed for locking the cupboard and came out completely forgetting, why I went inside. And then for the whole day, I didn't realize even once that I had done some such thing....

I don't know when I am going to change... Absent mindedness has been my long standing companion who seems to be in a no mood to betray me.....