Data Lost
I have been very busy the last 2 weeks because my two laptops were corrupted by viruses. I failed to recover my data and had to use the recovery CD to reformat them. All the photos I had taken since 2004 and those given by my friends were all gone. Even the links of all my friends' blogs are gone now. :(The moral of the story?
Backup all my photos as well?
Or maybe another lesson for me to learn is to let go of the past? I still hold on to the past sometimes, even though I know it is 'history' and things are not the same anymore. Am I being stubborn or is my memory 'too good'? Sometimes I wish I am striked by dementia and forget everything.
I sounded very negative isn't it?
Maybe... I need God to purify my mind and fill it with "whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable" (Philippians 4:8).
Proverbs 23:7 says, “As [a person] thinks in his heart, so is he.”
Labels: musing
posted at 9/08/2006 12:01:00 AM |
Name: Bee
7 Comments:
Hmmm … what sort of websites have you been visiting that you caught a virus? (teasing).
I have had a virus problem twice. I am pretty good about backing up data. I worry too about losing digital photos - so I burn lots of CDs and hand them to relatives. I just bought a new external hard drive to do additional backups.
Hanging onto the past is not a problem, refusing to grow forward is.
I love to explore through my endless collections of things. Yes, I am a packrat. I love the sense of rediscovery when something stirs and reawakens memories within me. Sometimes I am saddened as well, as I wonder if I hold too much to the past. I am different from most people because I do not have any sense of belonging, I do not fully share in the culture and customs of those around me - all I have are the fragments I have collected.
Not everything always happens for a reason, sometimes it is just a random occurrence, but we should always profit to better ourselves from it.
I am sorry you lost data. I hope you can recover it. I am sure you will find little areas and corners of your room where precious nuggets are stored (like your blogs).
Take care.
(Yeah, I have no life - just sitting, waiting patiently at your blog ;-)
Your website la :P
But to Christians, nothing happens by chance... there is always something God wants us to learn from events that happened in our lives.
You know me, the Christian with the heretical ideas.
I Cannot believe in a God who would deliberately cause us harm. I do believe in a God who is aware of everything and who may intercede if we implore Him through prayer.
I believe in a God who is ever present, whose spirit infuses everything, but I do not believe in a God who is actively involved in every little detail.
I often use the analogy of a parent who watches his / her children, but is not necessarily involved in every aspect of that child life (feeding the child: providing food - sure; cutting it up and spoon feeding - no).
My view of the universe permits for chance events to occur (much like a child who feeds itself and drips spaghetti sauce on its shirt).
Taking on your analogy of a parent and child...
If your child fell down... do you immediately pick him/her up or encourage the child to pick himself/herself up and walk again?
If your child grew to be an adult and started working... if he encounters a problem at work, do you settle the problem for him/her or do you encourage him/her to use creative thinking to solve those problems?
Do you intervene immediately, or do you let the child learn from his/her mistakes?
Do you know where I am coming from now? :D
I let them learn on their own, but I do not deliberately put obstacles in their path (my wife, on the other hand, immediately rushes to their aid).
I simply find it unlikely that God had anything to do with you losing your data - for me it was a chance event. God knows you lost your data, but did not cause the loss. Consequently, the loss of data was a chance event - rather than a destined one.
Hmmn... when did I ever say God has anything to do with my data lost? I guess I didn't make myself clear enough ya.
What I was saying in my post was that lessons I could learn from my data lost were:
1. to "Backup all my photos as well"
2. "to let go of the past"
Clearer now? :)
Ok, you didn't, I had inferred that possibly you felt God had a hand in it.
As usual, I think we are more on the same wavelength than not.
Today's Gospel reading was from Mark 7:32-36
They brought to him a deaf man who had an impediment in his speech; and they begged him to lay his hand on him. He took him aside in private, away from the crowd, and put his fingers into his ears, and he spat and touched his tongue. Then looking up to heaven, he sighed and said to him, "Ephphatha," that is, "Be opened." And immediately his ears were opened, his tongue was released, and he spoke plainly. Then Jesus ordered them to tell no one; but the more he ordered them, the more zealously they proclaimed it.
Should be a lesson to us not to be deaf or mute, but to listen and speak carefully so the glory of God may be in our communications and not the discord of Satan.
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