Those phone call you didn’t make

today it is overly easy to reach people by almost anything; you can google people, find them in facebook, reach them in twitter, email them, or simply dial their number, you barely lost contact of someone. In this generation, it is become impossible to off the grid.

It will left you only with this; you reach them or you just do not want to.

That’s it. There is no longer “I lost your number”, “I couldn’t find you”, “I didn’t get your mail (yes, mail, letters, not an email), and etc. guess, welcome to the no-excuses-generation.

Today, information is overflowing and easy to get, whether by digital information or just by asking someone. As an employee in this no-excuses generation, it is really no excuse for us for…. A lot of things.

Exhibit A.

There is no excuse for you to being late ;

• Wake up late? Put an alarm, you have none alarm clock? Well, every cellphone has it now.
• Can’t get to work on time because of no transportation? Get a car, can’t afford it? Get a bike, can’t afford it? Take some public transports, can’t find them? Use local ojek, can’t find them near you? Use online transportation, do not have internet connection? then just call someone.

Exhibit B.

there is no excuse for unable to do certain things ;

• do not know about anything? Google it.
• Do not know how to do it? Find the tutorial.
• Do not know who you’re going to meet? Simply, just ask someone.

Those multi layer of no-excuses rules is also applied in common life problems, such as for family and friends. They are the no-excuses list for me. I supposed to call my dad this morning, ask him how is he doing, but I didn’t. I suppose call my husband for lunch-phone call, but I can’t make it — as my excuse is my phone battery is low as I driving out of town (don’t I have a power-bank? Why didn’t I charge it last night?) I suppose to call my mother when she arrived in Jakarta this noon, but I didn’t.

As I remember how it felt when I longing a phone call or simply a simple text from my distant family when they can’t make it to my wedding, I remember waiting for the call that never came.

As I remember my old great aunt living by herself alone in her house, waiting for their kids and nephews to just call them, but I didn’t, as my excuses that I was too busy (busy doing what exactly?)

As I remember those news I need to spread, those tears I need to share, those apologize that I need to ask, those cheerful sound I need to make for them who just need it, those wrapping gift I need to send for my best friend's child first birthday. Those things I didn’t make it.

Those things onlyleft myself with realization of how forgetful I am, how hypocrisy busy I am to ignore my self-reminder for those little things and it left me with one excuse; it’s too late now.

Well, it is too late now, if I said the same thing or do the exact same thing I intend to, but it will not that late if I updated my intention with a better effort and comforting excuses.

Okay, got to go now, I need to make a phone call.