#AtoZChallenge - 4-3-2017 - Letter B
B- for BACKUP
Not so long ago, when computers came into our lives, there
was a lot of confusion. Did they make our lives simpler or did they complicate
things further? That was when some wag came up with this gem: “To err is human,
but to really mess things up, there is nothing to beat a computer!”
Slowly the bugs got ironed out and our dependence on
artificial intelligence began to grow. So much so that if our little e-buddy
crashed, we were in danger of running around like headless chickens. That is
when humans came up with the concept of Back-up: the e-equivalent of not
putting all your eggs in one basket. Or rather, having duplicate eggs in various
baskets ----hard drives, floppies, pen drives, hard copies, cloud, net---- the list
of back-ups grows at a bracing pace!
This brings me to back-ups of another kind.
Have you noticed how some people can always be relied upon?
Whether it is having a spare pen to lend you or a can of petrol, you know you
can count on them to help you out.
She is the neighbour you run to for her extra gas cylinder,
because you forgot to book yours. She is the mother who has chocolate, tissues
and band-aid for your child as well as hers, on a play-date, because you didn’t
think of it.
He is the colleague who has the contact numbers of everybody
you could possibly need, from an A/C technician to a cardiac surgeon. He is the
passerby who tells you that the shop you were hunting for has shifted to the
first floor.
Each time we encounter such people--- call them angels or
backups---we think, “Luckily, so-and-so helped me.”
The point to ponder is: Do you consider yourself blessed to
have a back-up or are you a back-up for someone else?
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