What Can A Bad Internet Connection Teach You About Life?
Growing up with a bad internet connection isn't bad since one wouldn't have experienced a fast connection and its benefits. What really would hurt is to go from a high-speed internet connection to a pathetic internet speed. And, I believe most of us experienced the pain of slow internet connection. Isn’t it?
Though a bad internet connection is a pain in the ass it does teach you some valuable lessons.
1. Have Patience
It is the first lesson a bad internet connectivity teaches you. You are waiting for your email page or any specific website to load. It requires a lot of patience as many times the loading of the page could fail and you need to reload the page again and keep looking at the screen.
So, it teaches you that when things are not working in your favor, then have patience. Slowly and steadily it will turn into your favor.
2. Switch to next best alternative.
A slow internet connection generally failed to load many web pages even after so many reloads. Generally in case of email (Gmail), so it offers an option to load the page with a slow connection. It loads the HTML form of your mail instead of the standard view. Anyhow, you able to check your emails now.
So, it teaches you to switch to next best alternative, if the first option is not working.
3. Your anger doesn’t bring guilt, sorrow etc. to others.
When you need to send an email or transfer funds, but the specific page is not loading. It will frustrate you at such an extent that you would think to break anything around you even your cell phone.
It taught me that my anger doesn't bring guilt, sorrow etc. to one I'm angry on. It doesn't make them work better or improve in any way. Human are no better than net connections while dealing with anger.
4. Know some tricks and hacks to speed up the performance by the certain percentage.
It helps to think you creatively to speed up the slow connection performance. It could be running a single website at a time instead of many pages opened in multiple tabs, deleting caches and cookies, disabling the apps which using internet connection like Messenger, Windows Update, etc. It helps to boost the speed by a little margin, but it works.
Similarly, we can boost our performance in our life by reducing the scattered efforts in various fields and focus on one task at a time resulting in increased productivity.
5. Optimum use of the resources
When you using the high-speed internet, generally you watch the videos/movies online rather downloading them, playing online games, downloading anything you found interesting that moment. Result- Internet Data Consumption raised and your pocket just getting empty.
When you use a slow internet connection, you start optimizing your time and resources. You just don't download anything without thinking. It helps you to save few bucks as well as to identify what is important for you and what will help you out.
Similarly, in life, many times we just become spendthrift when there is a lot of cash in our pocket but when we have few bucks, we know what we should buy or from where should we buy. We start utilizing our time and money more effectively. Isn't it great!
6. Learn to become self-contented
It doesn't matter if the speed is bad or losing your calmness. But, one thing you didn’t notice you still have the internet. There are many people around the world who don’t even know, “Who is Internet?” Why do they not know? That’s a different story. But, they don’t have and you have at least slow internet connection.
So, feel blessed with what you have instead of worrying about what you don’t have. Be happy with what you have got in life. There are many people who feel miserable even with super-fast broadband.
Did you learn any lesson from a slow internet connection?
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