I think my eye sight is getting worse by the day.... I was always leaning towards the side of being a bit near-sighted, but it's getting to be pretty bad. :( On top of that the malfunction indicator light has come up on my dear Bora at 7912 miles... Grr... Perhaps it's finally my time to get the coil pack changed? Well, I dunno if all those things somehow brought forth the depressive genes in me, but I don't seem to have any energy right now... I know it may seem like what I'm about to say is totally unrelated, but it's the first thing that just popped into my head, so I'm just gonna write about it. :P Well, so it's is nothing but this one story of a son and his dad I had read about few years back... I believe it went something like this:

The son called his father at work and his father was supposedly very busy... The son asked him if he could talk to him for just 5 minutes. His dad told him that he's too busy to talk and his son acknowledge him by telling him that he understood and hung up... Well, the son was discovered by his unsuspecting dad when he returned home from work later that night... hung from the ceiling... stone cold... He had left a note saying how he felt that nobody loved him. His mom had passed away earlier and his dad was never somebody who expressed much emotions, so he felt that he had no reason to live..

Before you tell me that the boy was immature and stupid to have taken his own life, think about the difference his dad could have made if he had spent just 5 minutes listening to his son on the phone earlier that day... You may think it might have made no difference... But, you'd never know, right? There's no point in arguing whether the kid was immature or not. It's not the question of whom to blame for the death of the son, either. It's about taking all the preventative measures beforehand. If you're the type of person who like to tell your kid to "grow up" all the time.... well... it'll only come with time... and you doing so doesn't really help much... Eversince I had read that story I don't think I've ever told anybody off if he/she asks me if he/she could talk to me for just one minute even if I were really busy. Unless you're disarming a time bomb, I can't think of any reason why you can't spare 5 minutes with somebody who has worked up the nerve to ask for your time despite knowing that you're busy. As I always say... I think "busy" is a relative term... It is directly related to priorities... If a loved one ever asks you to spare 5 minutes, what you do is you instantly put that person as priority #1... even if it's only for 5 minuets...