Some days are difficult. Like everything moves at sloth’s pace. And you don’t know why. Well if you thought I am going to come up with 1001 reasons why, I am not. I simply here to state that it bothers me how things suddenly go wrong. Things as normal as entering a meeting and Teams won’t work. Or simply trying to copy paste, and even that won’t work.

Top it up with the fact that it is a deferment module. So I was enteing a new cohort for the first time. I did not know the facilitator. I wasn’t connected to the whatsapp group. It felt like starting out on a race were others did a hour ago.

Frustrating as it may seem, I had only two choices – to lose my calm or cling on to it. I chose the latter. I took nearly an hour to get into my class, with help from IT support. And no, he was not successful. The app did not work. He wasn’t ready to give up. Finally, I had to intervene and ask him to let me use the web as saving grace.

After entering the class like an hour late, I took forever to mark my attendance. The the lesson was almost over by the time I found my grip. And we were to start work on the assignment. It was like Dr.Suess’s Wack Wednesday. Mine was a freaky Friday though. The day when everything went wrong.

I remember losing it and yelling and cursing over a similar situation in a different lifetime. But today, I chose to stay calm, even though my mind experienced turbulance. Today I decided to go through all drama by focussing on my work. And lo and behold, I managed to complete all my tasks and this post.

As for tech, the world may bank upon AI and choose smart gadgets for everything from phones to bathroom mirrors. But when gadgets conk off, you have only your own intelligence to fall back on. It makes sense to keep it intact, stay sane and sometimes have the patience to enjoy the simple pleasures of life, like being able to enter a class on time.

P.S. I am not sure if patience is a virtue directly prportional to age, or if I am free to take some credit owing to the work I put into myself over the past few years. Whatever it is, I am happy to adit, patience comes handy a opposed to yelling and cursing. Good for health and great to maintain relationships with everyone!