Please excuse me for venting (kvetching in Yiddish), but I am sooooooo completely sick and tired of all the hardware and software and just anything that can possibly go wrong going wrong with my Sony VAIO laptop that I bought the last day of the month of November 2011 from Best Buy. Has been SUCH a lemon and I don't mind who knows it. But some of it was my fault because it was on sale and a very new customer service associate at Best Buy said that Sony was re-calling that specific model, but I ignored him.
How many other times in my life have I opted for the cheapest or a great buy only to be disappointed? Why did I believe that I had to take what I could get and didn't deserve to have the best?
I found in faith that it is not about what we deserve or earn, but that the Lord blesses us. When we think we are in power we only have ourselves to blame when things break or don't live up to our expectations. That reminds me of something they tried to teach us at Air Force Officer Training School . . .the dictum was, "Never finagle your way to a new assignment because of the negative "bitch and moan factor" if things don't turn out well. You only have your self to blame, but if you had nothing to do with it, you can blame whoever triggered the assignment coming up for you."
All in all, there are many times in life where the only real choice we have is how we can change our attitude toward something that happens or to someone who comes into our lives.
How many other times in my life have I opted for the cheapest or a great buy only to be disappointed? Why did I believe that I had to take what I could get and didn't deserve to have the best?
I found in faith that it is not about what we deserve or earn, but that the Lord blesses us. When we think we are in power we only have ourselves to blame when things break or don't live up to our expectations. That reminds me of something they tried to teach us at Air Force Officer Training School . . .the dictum was, "Never finagle your way to a new assignment because of the negative "bitch and moan factor" if things don't turn out well. You only have your self to blame, but if you had nothing to do with it, you can blame whoever triggered the assignment coming up for you."
All in all, there are many times in life where the only real choice we have is how we can change our attitude toward something that happens or to someone who comes into our lives.
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