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Old 02-05-2020, 05:16 AM
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jr67
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Join Date: Jan 2020
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Hello class.

Well, it happened again. I was just about to hit Submit Reply on a carefully wrought post that I spent an hour on this morning composing, refining, revising, when my hand touched some portion of my laptop's touch screen to cause the thing to vanish.

So, in the 5 minutes or so that I now have available, let me say:

Yeow! I could scream!!!

(I just did, see?).

Ok now, deep breath, jr.

You are doing your best with your limited capabilities. No one can ask for more.

Exhale. The SobeRlandia Express chugs along, without, for the nonce, the particular words of wisdom or folly over which you had so fervidly labored this morning.

Oh well.

Accept what happened (because it happened, and you can't change the past, even the 5-minutes-ago, "how-could-you-be-so-clumsy -now-you've-wasted-half-the-morning" past),

Try to learn from the experience.

Breathe again.

Note the exaggeration: It wasn't half the morning, it was an hour. And it wasn't wasted, because you, jr, thought about that about which you were writing, and came to certain observations and conclusions about the subject(s), so you learned something, jr, so that is not a waste.

Be kind to yourself.

Let it go.
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