Inanimate objects can teach you things - and acutally, the way they do can be viewed to be even better than the alive, simply because without having the ability to make a decesion and to define even a tinge of rationality in that choice, the nature of its lessons become especially objective and without some necessary baggage which the ones who feel have to put up with (on both sides). The most obvious and direct example, would be books as compared to human teachers, for the fact that the books won't care so much about your welfare. They do not have that conciousness, only merely being able to account for things in a clean, generalistic fashion that does not yell for the student to commit.

But there are other inanimate objects that can be teachers of course, and this time i refer to my computer. Not that it has great educational CDs and wikipedia- its act was not that related to data generation. All it did, was simply to die. I suppose the motherboard was overheated or something due to the countless number of times I left it on and went to sleep. There was also once when I got up and rushed for school, without turning the guy off and coming back only to use it again before I allowed it rest. Significantly, the first time the com died on me, I pleaded with it to allow me to use it since I had about 3 major things to complete before the next day - well it worked, and then I left it on and went to sleep again -_- . This time, I came back to find that the com has really died. Any hope will be found in the computer shop whose salesman recongises my dad and myself as the annual visitors who formatted our coms close to 4 times.

My com is probaly tired with constantly giving me the benefit of the doubt, constantly ignorning any abuse and working as apathetically as I am while I use it, its tired of my criticisms of its lag, tried of my sigh at its not going faster while I do not attempt to buy it new cards or clear up its disk space, tired that I ignored its visible grievences and worked as a utilitarian, tired that I made no apologies and moved on just as things were even after it was weakened. Yes, just because I always did it, it doesn't mean I can always do - there is that breaking point. As cliche as it is - second chances don't come easy, and to ignore the significance of that attempted revival.. my Com probaly couldn't take it anymore.
All those lessons, from a sacrifical death of my Com. Thank you.

And yes, I do believe that the eraser is trying to teach me something to. Well, I'll try.

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