I'm not afraid to say it. I'm an idiot. Not in the way that Dostoyevsky viewed what idiots were; idiocy, to him, pertained to an innocence, and was, perhaps, even a physical ailment. My idiocy is completely mental. I just make stupid, idiotic mistakes. Not in all things, mind you...just when it comes to computers.
Just this morning, I had to ask my boss to help me fix a problem with my computer. For some unknown reason, I was unable to open up any of my PDF documents without it automatically opening in Word, causing the entire document to be encrypted. I was fighting with the stupid thing for so long that it was border-line ridiculous. I wanted to curse at it and then throw it out of the window for doing something so stupid that I never asked it to do! I blamed my computer for all sorts of things today, from causing me mental stress, to wasting my time, to causing the breakdown of society in general (and I'm pretty sure I threw world hunger in there too...stupid computer). And, may I add, I was the complete opposite of Dostoyevsky's idiot, Myshkin, who was just far too generous, innocent, and kind. I was not kind to my computer. I sat there, after fiddling with it for [what seemed like] forever and said to it (a la Napoleon Dynamite): "Idiot!"
Thankfully, however, my boss came along and was able to fix the problem, and then showed me how to prevent it from happening again. He told me that I had probably tried to open a PDF document with Word and forgot to uncheck the "always use this programme as the default programme" box. Simple as that.
Now, as it is, I am the idiot...not my desktop.
It is because of these inane errors that I make when working with my desktop computer that I have decided to learn a little more about it; I am planning on completing a Microsoft Office course in the coming year.
Once I complete my course, I will be able to shed my computer-idiocy, and deal with whatever technological problems may come my way! And, if I do have a momentary lapse in anger, I must remember that just as Myshkin cannot be called an idiot simply because of his innocence, neither can my desktop.
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