My New ID Card

I lost my ID card last Friday after 5pm. It was like the ONLY day in this entire semester that I went to sooooooooooooo many places in a single afternoon: commons, EE library, SML, International center, Econ Department Secretary's office...and I hadn't noticed the card was gone until I tried to take it out from my back pocket when I was entering D-port dining hall. I went back to the two libraries and emailed all the other contacts to see if they happen to see a lost ID card.

Of course, no luck.

So I called up security and asked for a temp card over the weekend. 10 min later, I was there at Phelps Gate waiting for some giant security people to show up, and at the mean time, being scrutinized by every person who walked by. It was raining, and I didn't bring my umbrella. Efficiency, I said to myself. Then I discovered the umbrella is not the only thing I forgot, my watch too. So I was hopeless there...Efficiency, I said to myself again, and I guess that was another 10 min.

It was a relief when the security person finally showed up with his swift bicycle, too little for his giant body, and my mood got slightly better when he looked up right into me, gave me a natural smirk and called out: temp card? Oops, when does THAT become yet ANOTHER nickname of mine?! Anyway, the guy's quite cute so I am not going on here blaming again that I have to wait for another 10 min to finally GET the temp card because he had been using that loud walkie-talkie back and forth for verification reasons and whatsoever.

It was not too good an experience. But every blemish's gone when I got my new ID card this afternoon. It was genuinely beautiful. Oh I am not talking about my ID picture, of course. I am taking about the design. There are shining little stripes at the bottom which were never been there before, and there is this horizontal watermark of our School Insignia covering the place of the ID photo. It is at one point so similar to the "大头帖" we used to take in China, and it is also sooooooooo professional with that huge watermark! I am so impressed by the new card, that I instantly don't feel so bad at all, for paying 20 bucks for it.

On my way back, I couldn't stop thinking: life, indeed, is full of surprises. I would have never got a chance to own this new splendid ID card if I hadn't lose my old one; I would be graduating this month if I hadn't took that year off, and I might even be crying at the CUSY dinner to come in 2 hours at Mory's because I would be saying goodbye to everyone as a senior; and I would be clueless with what to do since the H1B's all gone with no time on April 1st, and I would be extremely anxious when I learned my ex resigned from that I bank because I might end up doing that too...

But right now, I am still a junior with another year to go, and I still got time to perceive, to think, to cherish, and to explore. Although I know this other year will fly away just as fast as this year begone, I will still be grateful because I did gave myself a little vacation, and I know it's time for it to pay off.