The Curse of Technology

Don't get me wrong, I love the internet.  I love that we can easily stay in touch with and keep tabs on so many wonderful people in our lives.  However, technology is both a blessing and a curse.

A week and a half ago, I accidentally dropped my laptop.  I hadn't backed up any of my files, of course, and now I am without all of my school stuff, and my computer.  You have no idea how much it sucks to try to go to college without a computer (especially as finals draw nearer).  Sure, I can go to the library, I can use the computers on campus, but when you consider how much time I spend on a computer in a week and how much I have to print, email, and type every week, the library just isn't a very feasible option.  Fortunately, I can stay up to date on emails via my phone, which is great for my students.  However, I can't really look up their grades, which were thankfully saved to my flashdrive, without a computer.  It sucks.  I never knew just how connected I was to technology via my little 6 lb (?) laptop computer.

Thankfully I am able to rent a laptop from BYU, until I can get my computer fixed but it still sucks.  I just want my computer back.  It's like starting everything all over because I have nothing.  I had no templates to help me write the 2 papers that I just turned in.  No example papers that I had saved in my files.  I have nothing from the past 3 years of college!  Plus, it just sucks to be working on a computer that is so different than your own and that has nothing of your own on it.  I have had to change several of the defaults just to make the rental a little more bearable, but the changes only stick if I don't ever shut down the computer.

This sucks, and I feel so dumb for (A)being in this situation and (B)being so effected by the loss of a freakin computer!  I mean, come on, it's not like I just lost my legs, or broke my arm, or had my apartment burn down.  It's just a freakin computer!  Despite all the logic telling me that it doesn't really matter, I still feel like I just lost a huge chunk of my life.  My computer was my connection to my family, friends, school, work, everything.  It sounds really dramatic, but that's kind of how it feels.  I never thought a simple computer could mean so much...

...Sorry for the drama.  The moral of the story is:  be grateful for your computers, but just remember, it could all be gone in a matter of moments.