17/09/2024
Hi everyone! It’s been a while, and I hope you’re all in good health. I wanted to share some thoughts that have been on my mind lately.
Back in 2015, during my ND 2 as a Computer Science student, I got my first personal laptop—an HP EliteBook 8440P with a Core i5 processor, 4GB RAM, and a 320GB HDD (Picture attached). It was actually a third-hand laptop, bought from a fellow course mate who was upgrading. Despite its state, it became an invaluable tool for me. I used it for a lot of self-learning beyond my curriculum, and it even helped me design and program software for my HND friends back then, working on their projects.
Over time, the laptop started lagging severely. Tasks that should take 30 minutes ended up taking an hour. My tendency to multitask with 3 to 5 heavy software programs running simultaneously didn’t help. Unconsciously, I got used to this lag, and it became part of my normal experience. I began to see it as a lesson in patience, even adopting the saying, "My first laptop taught me patience."
I never complained about laptops lagging after that because I had developed a kind of ‘lagging absorber’ from my first laptop experience. In fact, using a laptop that doesn’t lag feels a bit strange to me afterwards. When clients/friends complain about lagging laptops, I often perceive them as lacking "patience", a fruit of the Spirit (Patience - Galatians 5:22-23 NLT).
Indeed, how our experiences shape our perceptions.
Since then, I’ve had about three different laptops, and my current official laptop is a Lenovo Workstation P15e with a Core i7 10th Gen, 32GB RAM, and SSD storage. Unlearning the mindset that all laptops should lag wasn’t easy. I’m still working on it but acknowledging it now as a flaw is a positive step towards personal growth.
I’ll take a break from this discussion for now, but hope to return to it but i leave you with a question to ponder:
"Are the principles, mindsets, beliefs, and standards you hold onto, built from normal life circumstances or from abnormal ones?"