The Second Chance
It’s not always that you get a second chance,
Even in computing.
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A few days ago, whilst editing a new post, I blundered. Attempting to compress the picture files, I irreversibly converted them into little more than thumbnails. Such a loss is hardly shattering but it unsettled me. My impatience while tackling a new procedure had been needless.
I had been a little tired and clumsy that day. Even before my mistake, when gathering the photo images into a new parent folder, the computer seemed barely under my control. Rather disconcertingly, the new pictures disappeared completely at one stage.
But this vanishing trick turned to my advantage.
I have just discovered where the folder of unedited pictures was hiding. That original parent folder, its images still uncompressed, has been found!
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And now, with absolutely no apologies for self-indulgence, I re-present them
– uncompressed –
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“…and was lost, but is found…”
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Synchronicity is at play. The pain of loss and hope of discovery are described in other lives…
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when the lost is found it is always a cause for rejoicing …
December 14, 2010 at 9:41 am
Isn’t it lovely to find things? It’s the loss of control of a portion of your life that is so unsettling not necessarily the item itself.
December 14, 2010 at 5:00 pm
Or perhaps, the realisation that we never really were in control – and never will be, as long as we remain attached to outcome…
December 14, 2010 at 5:06 pm