I had similar feelings when I gave away the Dell desktop I used for a decade back in January. There wasn’t anything to like about the desktop in particular, except that it served me so well through the ups and downs of my very long grad school adventure.
One of the tags you have up there is “attachment,” which got me thinking. Why would you get attached to a stupid machine that takes ~8 min. (+/- 2 min) to boot up? I figure now that this probably is a sign of how ungrounded I am in life. Getting attached to things that really will last would, of course, be better, but such relationships take much more time and effort…
I had similar feelings when I gave away the Dell desktop I used for a decade back in January. There wasn’t anything to like about the desktop in particular, except that it served me so well through the ups and downs of my very long grad school adventure.
One of the tags you have up there is “attachment,” which got me thinking. Why would you get attached to a stupid machine that takes ~8 min. (+/- 2 min) to boot up? I figure now that this probably is a sign of how ungrounded I am in life. Getting attached to things that really will last would, of course, be better, but such relationships take much more time and effort…
Caglar, my laptop, like yours, was a very demanding fellow. It had problems with power button, fan, dvd driver, screen, keyboard and I gradually solved each of them. For example, http://www.ordinarycomics.com/comics/2008/09/15/15september2008.htm
http://www.ordinarycomics.com/comics/2008/09/16/16september2008.htm
http://www.ordinarycomics.com/comics/2008/09/17/17september2008.htm
I think the computer turns into a symbol of a period of our lives.
I agree with you. It is not very meaningful to getting attached to objects