Reboot

Reboot. 

Back in the eighties when personal computers were first becoming available, the word on the street was that you better not push the wrong button or you would make the computer crash. Crashing a computer was like the worst thing ever. Hopefully you had saved your information every five seconds or it would be lost in the cyber world forever. Or so they said. 

Needless to say, my generation was initially very fearful of doing something wrong and risking the crash. Fast forward about thirty years, and today you find kids who are fearless on the computer. I don't know for sure if there ever really was that infamous wrong button or if somehow over time computers evolved to just become more user friendly. What I do know is that I have become a lot less fearful when it comes to the computer. 

I have also learned that sometimes when your computer does not seem to be cooperating, the best thing to do is just reboot it; in other words start over. A fellow blogger friend of mine mentioned the other day about how she relys on the tech savvy of her young students when she needs assistance. One of them gave her the following advice; "You can fix most issues by just rebooting it."

Now this got me to thinking that if it works for the i phone, would it work for life in general? After all, basically rebooting is just restarting the computer after making an error. How many times in our life have we wallowed about the error we had made instead of just starting again?

I'm beginning to feel inspired by the power of the reboot. Most of our errors are relatively minor, falling into the category of annoying more than anything. So the next time when you find yourself feeling overwhelmed by a task take a minute to just reboot. That crash you were so worried about was probably never going to really happen.