Wednesday, February 20, 2008
My fountain of blessing
Sometimes things happen for reasons beyond our comprehension. Like for instance today while I was working on my 6000 word essay [I've completed about 4000], my laptop decided that the hours and days I spent on it weren't that important after all and crashed Microsoft Word while I was attempting to save my work:
"Word cannot save or create this file. Make sure the disk is not write protected."
Then the program promptly deleted whatever data I had saved before this and completely wiped out my document from my thumbdrive and the face of this planet. The next few minutes of frantically trying to retrieve my deceased document proved futile as the file could no longer be found either on my thumbdrive or the hard disk of the computer. Well I was frustrated, as anyone would understandably be, yet strangely enough, not to the extent of chucking my laptop out the window. Perhaps I had already resigned myself to retyping every single thing from the beginning, but it turned out to be a blessing in disguise because it gave me much needed momentum to sit at my desk and focus on my work, which I never had before this and thus resulted in plenty of overdue work which I got too lazy to get started on. Not so much a fountain of blessing as a stream, but at least I've got the momentum to start kicking butt.
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