Unapologetically Stubborn!

Today, while I was busy with my normal work duties, I needed to fill in a PDF document quite urgently. Now, seeing that I work on a computer daily, like most of our office mice do, I am quite efficient on a keyboard as well as steering through the maze of commands and directions needed to complete such a task. Normally I would dust off such a task in a few minutes, but for some reason my day was just not running as smoothly as I am used to.

Firstly, my computer froze, and I had to restart it, probably because I had as many tabs open on it as I normally have open in my brain, while leaping from one file to the other in order to pull everything together in the shortest amount of time humanly possible, with all the shortcuts I have mastered over the years. I really like myself a good short cut as I am all about working smarter and not harder, especially since I have a lot of interests for which I need to find time. Sorry I jumped topic again.

Well, when the computer blinked on again, in my haste, I realized I did not save all my work before I restarted it. A whole month’s meticulous tracking of orders and notes on those little buggers was lost in space. I tried all my clever tricks and searched through everything, but alas, nothing. Finally, I managed to update my carefully designed schedule in a time frame as to not put me too far back on my day’s planning.

It is self-explanatory that my morning started with an emetic slew of emotions ranging from shock, frustration, fear, anxiety and a tiny spark of anger, but here we are trying to be very patient and demure (the newest fashionable word, overused by everyone trying to be relevant at the moment). I kept my building anger in check, like Tick Tock’s gurus' advocate; I took slow deep breaths and then took on the task of filling out the urgent document. But, oh Lord have mercy, halfway through, the program froze. Same reason… too many tabs open at once, beckoning me to give attention to its urgent calling.

After many attempts to outwit the program, applying all known shortcuts to me and still no success of making the impossible happen; that the program will magically adhere to my needs, I finally lost it and very loudly uttered the following spontaneously: “You will not get the better of me! I will get this done!”

In that moment I grasped the realization of saving the work I’ve done up to that point, to close the program, give it a few minutes, open the half-completed PDF file and fill in the rest. It worked!!!

With the relief of completing the task, it hit me like a brick on my forehead: “My dear darling Ina… determination, resilience, flexibility and a whole lot of refusing to give up, was always part of the recipe in my life in order to complete tasks, overcome challenges and accomplish the goals I set for myself.”

Life can be hard, but if you refuse to give up, eventually you will have a breakthrough and accomplish what you had set out to do! Be stubbornly determined in your aspirations. But even more so, be stubbornly determined to overcome all challenges in life from love to loss. Analyze the problem at hand and search for the solution. Yes, there is always an answer although it might not be the one you wanted to accept or fitting in your impatient timeline, but there is always a way to reach your destination. You just need to be unapologetically stubborn about it.

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