Smooshed phone and the value of our lives

My phone got smooshed by a bus last week.  Expense and inconveinence aside, I had contact information as well as pictures and videos that I had neglected to properly back up.  Every day since I have remembered yet another number I must somehow retrieve, or another picture that I'll not be able to look on again.  My mind's eye holds quite a few of them, but there are those that I'll never recall and are now lost.

In today's world of abundant technology, it seems to me that I've lost some of the value just what it is that I have.  It is so easy to take a picture, or type in someone's number, and somehow it has actually made it easier to forget what it is that I like and need.  The only phone numbers I can recite are work related, and I had so many cute photos of flowering trees and funny pets and moments that I wanted to capture that I didn't hold onto them properly. 

Lesson learned.  (That, and the ever-important lesson of insurance for your phone).

-C.