Computers and people are the same - really

Posted on | August 12, 2009 |

Computers get viruses, slow down, and become less than they could be.  This much we know.  And, in case you haven’t noticed, people are exactly the same way.

In our travels and our interactions with people we pick up attitudes, we mirror what people tell us, and we take on the flavor of wherever and who ever we’re with.  Sometimes that energy is negative, fearful, even neurotic. In just the same way as computers, we internalize these feelings and they knock us off our authentic stride.  We do things slowly, reluctantly, and we tend to quit half way through.  Just like computers.

The challenge, of course, is to refuse others’ negativity and madness; to reject the fearful world view of others, and try and stay sane.

If you watch the TV news each night you will be confronted with disasters and dreadful doings of all sorts.  You will rarely come across one item of human warmth or of peaceful gratitude for the world we live in. This is like taking a vacation in a center for highly infectious diseases and expecting to emerge feeling better than when you walked in.  It just won’t happen.

We can get rid of the viruses in our computers or even get a new computer.  It’s a little harder to rid oneself of the mental viruses of fear, ego, and negativity.

That’s where the similarity with computers ends.

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