Begin All Over Again

Never give up hope. Anytime in Life, you can Begin All Over Again.

I learnt this lesson from my BB (Blackberry) few days ago.

For those of you who may raise eyebrows at my source of inspiration, here is the detail.

I am a gadget freak, trying to take the most out of every piece of an equipment big or small. Thus, my BB bore the maximum wear and tear from the day it got into my hands a few months ago. Even my son, seeing me use it all the time irrepective of what time of the day(night) it was, had many a times asked me to have mercy for my BB. Obviously, my wife and I had fought many times over her (BB). I used her for reading my mails, messages, audio books, fb, twitter, movie tickets and what-nots. Out of laziness to sort them, I maintained over 5k contacts. I have sometimes earned the wrath of my seniors, or seemingly abused my BB – when her apps woke up the meetings. I so started spending my nights too with her.

Last week it so happened that my BB conked. Suddenly, my world came to a stand still. That one day made me think that a day could be soo long, if only one had no mobile to finger. I felt very guilty to be out of reach to my colleagues and friends. I was very concerned whether I would be able to retrieve my contacts from my BB. Also, since I was on the move attending to a serious accident that day, I had faced serious handicap without my BB. On the back of my mind the devil was a little happy for being untouched by the innumerable calls – which were by now driving me away from my agenda almost everyday. End of the day, I was very sad, grieving with guilt.

I had to decide on whether to do away with the apps that engaged me for most of my day or to go for a new mobile at a cost almost ten times the cost of the apps I had in my BB. On another occasion, I would have chosen to buy a new mobile altogether on this pretext. But, since my valet was thin, I had no choice but to format my BB. Yes, I had to wipe the 5000 odd contacts that I had accumulated over seven years. The four hours of formatting and reviving the BB seemed longer than the whole day that had just gone by without a call.

Fortunately, one of the apps loaded therein took backup of my contacts daily. I had earlier, on the previous day, mailed such backup to my email account. I was more fortunate to recall this act at the right time. I decided to Begin All Over Again. Anyways, it was a different story that when I began reviving the contacts and uploading them, the entire exercise seemed even longer, beyond midnight for my BB to come back.

Anytime in life, we can begin all over again. What a philosophy Guruji !!!