As a normal – more or less – human being, I have a
love of the tried and true, the usual, the ordinary, the ho-hum everyday sticking
to the schedule or reason or reasoning. Change, good or bad, is to be avoided.
However, occasionally someone or something will work
at me enough to lever me out of that state of being: this time it was my
browser.
If I didn’t much notice it for the
odd search, it was fairly obvious when I changed tabs and even more so when
it came to playing the occasional computer game (well, if you believe that you don’t know
me!). It was getting to the point that I wasn’t even playing any computer games
as simply too slow.
At first I checked my extensions, my add-ons,
emptied my desktop trash, my iPhoto trash, and all the other trash cans (and
there are a few – why can’t someone develop a communal trash can for the
computer so that there is only one place to empty? Are you listening geeks?). I
seriously considered offloading some of my numerous files and it got so bad
that I re-started my “I-need-to-get-a-new-computer: which one?” search!
Whilst reading the what to do when your browser is
too slow, I read that sometimes simply going back to the original configuration
helps: “reset to default”. Oh the trepidations… but finally it was one slow
game too many and I thought, what the heck, can’t use it as it is, may as well
take a chance.
I hit that button and lo and behold am back up to
my usual scores.
It seems to me that this is perhaps a homily on life
as well: we spend so much time trying to avoid having to re-start a relation,
re-configure a computer, replace that worn out shirt (but it was a favorite,
never mind the hole at the bottom of the hem, no one will notice), replace the
“on its last legs” piece of machinery when we would probably be a lot better
off simply taking a chance and hitting that “reset” button.
Hmm…. Now if I can figure out how to set the
physical body one to say 20 years ago, that would be one, which I would
willingly take a chance on! I know, I’ll click on this one.
