broken laptops and starting over

my laptop died on me last monday. I ignored all his symptoms of slowing down, flickering, giving weird messages, seizures, stupor -- until it finally succumbed to a coma that leaves me just staring into the most hopeless display that Windows could give you: the Blue Screen.

 

I was scared of all the unpublished works I, the pictures I have, the Fraternity documents, Videos, and Music - everything wasn't backed up. So I rushed him to the UST Med MIC to have him resuscitated...

 

2 days after admission, my Laptop is alive again. I just chose what files to keep and in a few hours, it's back with a better OS and a better antivirus program . It's as if nothing happened. It has all my files at my documents, downloads, music and pictures. no more interruptions from the viruses and everything is back as good as new.

 

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if you screwed up too much in life,for a laptop, reformatting would be easy. you just pay a certain amount, choose the ones to take with you and discard other ones. the next day you'll wake up without pain, and all the gain. plus the sleekier features of a new operating system. sometimes i wish our minds would just be like that. imagine how easy would it be to download information and share it, and delete anything that's just dragging us down. how easy life would be if we choose our friends online, and discard them after. we get new games, and when we're done, we delete.

 

and if everything becomes unbearable again, we just run back to our nearest friendly technician for a reset.

 

 

 

 

unfortunately, we're not like laptops. there is no CTRL + ALT  + DELETE. there is no pause, or rewind, no ESC button or if it all doesnt work, we just pull our battery packs out and put it back in and start anew. We're all human. We deal with every pain, get through moving-on stages, and suffer without the help of Kaspersky, and Doctors can only help us only to a point, yet the rest is still up to us. We don' t simply un-friend someone just because you dont like her anymore. We dont get married in a click of a mouse, and break up 10 minutes after. we suffer consequences, and we become what we are now and what we will be because of it. no CTRL+Z allowed. When we screw up, we deal with it. We suck it up, and face all the repercussions.

 

 

on the other hand, fortunately, we're not like laptops. because despite of all, we learn in the process. we become stronger due to the pain. every little thing we do, leave scars on us. and each scar has a story to tell - not just how it got hurt, and how it bled, but also how it stopped bleeding and healed. we take part in the vicious cycle of love-and-get-hurt without shortcuts, because each part of the process has something to teach us. With a laptop, it's ok to make the same mistakes again. It's OK to be careless. OK to be damaged - it'd be backed up anyway. But in real life, We stop making the same mistakes because we're tired of making new Files just to be deleted and deleted again - no backup. That each time we stumble, we get stronger for it.

 

 

Fortunately, we are human. We may not have 2 Tera byte Hard Drives, but We have Feelings. We appreciate the warmth of a kiss from someone special, the hands of a loved one, a hug from a friend. Laptops can't feel that even if it dedicates all it's hard drive to porn. Laptops may get reformatted from time to time, but We suck up all mistakes, fall, but stand up a better person after. Laptops have shelf lives, after that, you replace them. Us? No matter what happens with our life, we try to survive it. try to understand it. try to appreciate it. and ultimately, try to live it - and in the end, be thankful for it.

 

 

If everything we hated at that time was deleted just because we were at an unbearable pain, then we wouldn't have matured at all. There would be no growth or progress just because we'll go back to the start every time.

 

and no matter how advanced Science is, it will never, ever, make a robot imitate the miracle of life.