A computer, a banana and a writer walk up to the bar
Here’s an update on the BeF.A.T. jar that I started on January 1st — eight months of finding something awesome in each day. It ain’t always easy people…
So my computer decided to freeze up today while saving a rather larger document.Four-hundred and six tries later… Okay, slight exaggeration…
Instead of heaving the thing across the room — so wanted to — I wandered in circles around the house. Normal behavior for me to solve problems, and find missing reading glasses, and contemplate life’s great debates, like why all the fuss over paper versus plastic?
In truth, circling the furniture wastes a lot of time and begs more questions than answers.
When’s the last time this place got dusted? Is there a reason the light on the cable box has been blinking since 2004? And why is there a banana peel in the bathroom sink…Why? Who left it there?
Then I passed the BeF.A.T. jar sitting on the bar. (Don’t judge).
Each piece of paper scribbled with a few words. A nearly full jar of awesome-worthy moments from this year.
With today’s stupid complication about to ruin my day, and potentially a 100 page draft, I reached in to get some inspiration.
Every one of the eight BeF.A.T. notes I randomly picked out, focused on a person. Someone I’d spent time with or spoke to, or received a message from. Not one of my awesome moments was about tangible things; no “stuff”.
But here’s the disclosure: The first note I read was about my gluttonous trip to Italy. A place where I stuffed my face with pasta fill-in-the-blank, and over-served myself on Sangiovese wines. I guessed at the ingredients of the most wonderful dishes and wrote down a reminder to “try this at home”. Stuff, right? However, the awesome moment worth my recording, were the people who comfortably ate off my plates and shared bottles of wine.
I’d spent a strategy planning day with a colleague. Breakfast with my brother. Swimming in the ocean with a grandchild.
Reading these notes was an honest reminder to find the awesome in your every day but in people, too.
And I did.
One more walk around the couch and I figured out the solution my computer problem.
I dialed 1-800-YouDoIt.
My personal BeF.A.T. moment today was finding the original packaging and service contract to the computer — you know this isn’t easy. And my people moment, worthy of a note in the jar, after two hours on the phone, goes to my new friend, “Rajul” from Tech Support, Savior of lost documents. He likes pasta, doesn’t drink wine, and since he’s highly allergic to bananas, I know he didn’t do it.
No exaggeration.
BE F-G AWESOME TODAY!
Original graphic: Stephanie DelTorchio
Image: Personal photo
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