When Technology Fails

Angelita H. Cuevas

I spent my summer holidays in the Philippines trying to learn something new, and something that I really like doing.  I enrolled in Web Designing class for 30 hours and it was great. I learned how web designers create those HTML codes and CSS, but I couldn't make them myself. Well, using the software one doesn't have to worry about any html knowledge. It's just that some people spent their college lives learning how to do programming and created those codes and then someone had put them together in a software when we only have to perform simple tasks such us the basic clicking technique. It was nice to play around with Dreamweaver and Flash, so I decided to ask a friend to install the software in my laptop since she got the original copy. I left the Philippines with the software installed in my pc. I didn't expect that my computer would crash and lost that most important program. I was just glad that I was able to access safe mode by pressing F8 then I followed HP Total care advisor on how to retrieve the OS back to an earlier date. I was too scared that I would lose everything including the original Home Vista Basic since I was just not ready to do any higher technical task. I sent a message to my IT friend in the Philippines and he said that I can still access my desktop by pressing F8 that's how I got the Help care advisor. But it took me more than 4 hours to get my pc running. I only got the OS in it and lost everything.  I felt so sad, but it was not the first time that I had to say goodbye to my files. I already lost a lot of photos from my 2GB memory  card when one of my nieces or nephews accidentally erased the files in my digicam. I just  told myself that I can always take another  photos, and they're just inanimate objects, no feelings. With that I just learned to say goodbye, but with my computer issues, I just wanted to cry but again it's just a thing. No use of feeling bad since a computer or a digicam can't even return the feeling, no matter how smart these inventions are, they are not smart enough to feel what we feel. So with those successive technical failures, I learned two important lessons: BACK UP FILES if not, then LEARN TO SAY GOODBYE...As the saying goes, "It's no use crying over spilled milk."