New Equipment

It is entirely a human concern, the excitement and dread of getting new equipment. Most of us have experienced having to learn a new way of doing something with a new tool. I can remember wishing I could use the old word processessor. My last vacuum had different buttons and I could find them in the dark, while this new one makes no sense. The remote on my old system was better, less complex and this is supposed to be the easy package. These complaints are not new either. Imagine how rug beaters were received, a heavy wire on a stick used to beat the dirt, mud and dust out of rugs. I imagine someone complained about the time it took to hang a rug, whereas before two people shook it out; it was easier then.

We recently replaced and updated an iPad. It is exciting, it is frustrating and it requires us to learn a whole new set of rules. A friend of mine recently updated her phone and changed to a whole new system. When our life tools change, it can be frustrating, even when they work 100 times better, faster and more efficiently, because we do not. Humans like routine, we like things to run smoothly and predictably and our tools, those we use all the time, should never change.