The other day, my computer had been slowing down and I did what I’ve always done in the past. I restarted it so that the memory could refresh. It works every time.
But…this time it didn’t boot up as usual. It choose to ‘hang’ and take forever to load Windows. Very unusual.
I shut it down and tried to boot it up in ’safe’ mode. Wouldn’t load up there either. Huh. Something’s really wrong.
I tinkered with it for a bit more and nothing changed.
I thought to myself, “This is an interesting manifestation. Why did I create this?”
To be honest, I don’t know why. Maybe I needed to take a break myself?
Well, that’s exactly what I did. I knew that there was nothing I could do with computer. I might as well take this time to do something else. I chose to clear up clutter around my desk and file away papers that had been piling up.
Not having my computer up and running made me really aware of how much I depend on it. I listen to music through it. When I have a question, I’ll look it up on google. Much of my work is on this computer. I can watch past TV shows on demand too.
There is so much I could do on the computer that I’ll often put off other things that I’ve been meaning to do – like filing papers.
So, while I could have fretted about my computer not working and what would happen if I didn’t get work done I had planned to do, I didn’t. I was grateful because it made we aware of how much time I spend on the computer. It allowed me to clear my space. And it feels good to see all that clutter gone.
I did get my computer to finally load in Safe Mode and got it to run a ‘Defrag’ which coincidently declutters the hard drive space so that it can function more efficiently. That did the trick and my computer is up and running like new.
Interesting, huh?
My computer needed to be de-cluttered. That’s exactly what I needed to do too.
Everything happens for a reason.
Next time something happens unexpectedly for you, see if you can find the value in it.
