Right click... + Refresh !

Childhood of my generation was spent in front of Windows ! As kids; looking at park outside through it & as teenagers; on screen ! In later phase, in (most often) situation when we felt like throwing hot water on computer because it just moves the mouse but behaves like a brainless Dumbo or it fails to open so called heavy photo or it keeps on & on loading some simple excel sheet..... a command always came for our psychological rescue to make us feel like saving our world...RIGHT CLICK+REFRESH !

If I remember well, it did not do anything specific & I am sure even Mr. (Richy Rich) Gates also have remotest idea what his engineers had drunk when they manufactured REFRESH command. It was never related to the root cause of the slow down of machine. But, it definitely provided us a feeling that in extremely devastating situation, there is still something in your hand to be controlled.

To relate this with real life, I spent past two weeks in such brain exploding days. The weather was cyclonic, no electricity, no water & being victim of everything frustrating which can possible happen to single person at single time. This 'not so welcoming' rain had screwed up routine pretty badly & similar to a 'hanged' computer which collapses more deeply with every new 'click', we were doing more & more mistakes in panic to make our life miserable.

The only thing to our relief should have been a sponsored weekend to exotic resort in Bali so that special scientists from NASA under supervision of Mr. Modi rebuild my town when I was enjoying my pina collada in an Hammock on whitest beach sand on mother Earth. As we know that only two species get these kind of services. Drunken Macaca Fascicularis & James Bond.

So obviously, nothing of that sorted came to me. But then; while cleaning moisturized wooden cupboard of my old documents with extreme tiredness & reluctance, I found a piece of small note written by my teacher to my dad when I was 12 years old saying; “Handwriting of your Son is so pathetic that each letter reminds me of Picasso”. This reminded me not only my awful Hand Writing but whole childhood, school, Teacher, punishments & everything.

After couple of minutes looking at the beautiful memories of my school days through that paper note, I was refreshed & all set to happily finish the cleaning. No more a trip to bali was needed !

Here is a thing ! The note & content on it had absolutely no connection with the problems I was facing that moment. It could not give me solution how to protect my house from leaking roof, How to save my expensive equipments from Thunders, how to pump out water logged in my basement. But, it definitely proved a thought process which ran through my nerves & gave me energy & temorary motivation to just finish the job I was doing. There are many simple things which can trigger your hormones like this. A 2 minute call to your mother, Last piece of your favorite chocolate, A blossom on your garden plants, An unexpected article about your favorite singer, An old family photo & so on...

The funniest part is we always find so much satisfaction, joy, happiness in very very simple, basic things generally around us. We do not need to buy a new computer every time it behaves weird. The solution often lies in the mouse right below your right hand towards the right side !