Am I the only one frustrated when faced with using new computer application tools?  Usually, when I get on my computer, I do so with the mindset of completing a task.  I’m on the horse and I want to get going!  Having to disembark and step back to detect why my ‘horse’ aka computer isn’t operating as I expected, slows me down and puts a crimp in my plans.  

What do you mean this new program doesn’t work exactly like my old one did??  I want to know how to use the darn thing without having to take the time to learn.  My husband, on the other hand, understands that patience in dealing with these apps will get you further than fuming.  He takes the time to learn and understand how each of them works.  He masters them; they don’t get the better of him.

I am usually working up against a deadline, often self-imposed.  The irritation I feel is due, in large part, to the helplessness I feel… much like when I was trying to communicate to someone last weekend who spoke only Spanish.  We tried desperately to communicate but couldn’t understand one another until her husband came along and acted as our go-between.

My husband is my go-between with computer apps.  He translates them for me in a way that is less frustrating.  He understands how my brain works, my computer doesn’t.  I’m not unable to learn; I’m in just too much of a hurry and a little worried that if I click the wrong icon, my work will disappear.   Surely I’m not be the only one who’s had this most unpleasant experience!?  

Well, here I am writing this blog entry within a new-for-me app.  It’s like riding a new bike with training wheels.  So far so good!  The best part is that my husband is right around the corner should I have a spill.  Actually, the best, best part is that Nothing’s disappeared on me yet!  

As I write all this down, it occurs to me that my default setting still appears to be a hurried cadence.  Slowing down long enough to learn something seems to come more naturally to others than it does to me.  That must be why I value down time so much.  It’s only by slowing down this machinery of doing and accomplishing that I am able to discover and learn. It’s a concept that keeps reappearing for me.  Just when I think I’ve got it, I realize I don’t.  Like a wet slippery fish that’s impossible to hold onto, I feel the fisherman’s frustration who experiences this ongoing struggle.  Learning from the fisherman who continues to patiently cast his line and begin again, I, too, will continue to persist…

~Zanne

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