“We are free to choose our actions…but we are not free to choose
the consequences of those actions.”
- Stephen Covey
Sometimes, the most stupid actions are the best actions to take.
I always feel good whenever I report to my home office. I enter the room, take a quick glance at my table, chair and laptop and my mind just goes, “yeah, time to make some money!”
Whenever this happens, the day goes great.
But this day was different… so different.
I had an important deadline to meet for a particular project I was working on for a client. So, as usual, the first place I went to was my laptop.
After booting to the Windows desktop for a few seconds, the blue screen of death showed…
My laptop had crashed… Arrgh!!
My next option was to get another computer (my mum’s), plug in my USB flash drive where I had backed up the project and begin work for the day.
Lo and behold, after plugging in my flash, the craziest thing happened…
My flash drive had gone bad…
I was going crazy!
My last resort was to access the internet for the backup files via my android phone. But as I looked at my phone, I read the three most horrible words…
“Emergency Calls Only!”
My internet connection was absent…
It seemed bad luck and the devil had a score to settle with me that day.
Being that I was blessed with anger, the first thing that came to mind was to smash my phone on my laptop screen, break open my flash drive and chew on the chip.
I was mad! But I mean, that was the most sensible thing an angry man could do at that time, right? I needed to cool off my temper, so I had to do something really crazy and destructive.
But what I did afterwards really surprised me…
I didn’t do anything but sit on my chair and stare into space for what seemed like hours.
My mind was completely blank and it seemed as if I was deaf to the world. This singular action showed me something very important that I’ll never forget…