Energy efficient

Imagine a day when the computer gives up its ghost as I am using it.  It just gently fades away and refuses to ever boot up again.  No matter how long I wait, or how many times I unplug it and plug it back in, it is gone.

I pull out my travel computer and frantically begin searching for lost photos, which I wisely, way too late wisely, save to flash drives.  But my word processing program is so old the registration number is no longer valid!  And my printer refuses to recognize this computer!

Tons of stuff is gone for good.

I spend most of the day and night dealing with all of this and then sit down to finish knitting a hat when my knitting needle breaks and not only does the hat slide off, stitches continue to drop like slippery little eels as I attempt to recover them.  Never in all my life has a knitting needle broken while I was using it!

In one month I have managed to break a smart phone, computer, printer, and lose a knitting project!  Not even mentioning the new elliptical machine sitting in my living room waiting for spacers!  Some might say I'm having a spate of bad luck.

I suspect I am experiencing that along with a burst of tension that is probably quantifiable.  I once had a watch that was run by a battery, but it would gain time and then lose time.  The repair man said he could fix it if it did one or the other, but watches simply did not do both.  Mine did.  I realized that this watch ran on my time.  If I was nervous and racing around, it did too!  If I was depressed it was as if I sucked the energy right out of that watch.  I will never really know what happened, but I finally gave up wearing a watch all the time.  Every since then I only wear one when I really need it.

We are amazing creatures and I'm sure are only aware of a few of the things we influence in life.  It certainly bears thinking about.  Imagine all the good purposes I could put my energy into if I could harness this.