I'm no genius, I've spent most if my adult life married to a sort of geek. He is not so bad that I have to spend my life looking up things he has told me, although upon occasion I have done that. But still it has been a bit of a keep up or else kind of thing. Technology is his shiny object, and I have had to lean to keep up with the systems, computers, and processors that have flowed thru the house over the years. If I sound a little sour I really am not, somewhere on my refrigerator there is a magnet that says something to the effect of failure to keep up with technology will hinder your ability to survive it. I firmly believe we live to the age we can endure and no longer. Those able to most adapt live the longest, and more important live under less stress. Things not understood can become things that frustrate, and frustration breeds stress, stress kills.
It has been commented that I am a very lay back kind of person, I wasn't born this way, I was in my youth the ultimate contender. I would pick an argument just to have one, even if I really agreed with the other view point, playing the devil's advocate was fun for me. As a very young child my sisters were afraid to take me places because I would usually say the first thing I thought, it usually was also the first thing they thought, but were old enough and polite enough not to say it. I had no compulsion, I just blurted out what I was thinking. I am not sure if I just didn't care,I would like to think I just didn't have the maturity to know what one says can be hurtful. Thank goodness my kids were less inclined to be like me. It took me a long time to learn the lesson my mother tried to instill in me, she use to say, "quietness beats the devil". She learned that from her own father who was a gentle, quiet man with a volatile wife and 12 kids, he should have been a basket case yet he learned peace. I guess I learned it too.
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