I have often used the words "Technology hates me!" to describe my problems with technology. However, I am beginning to think that it is much deeper than that and I was hoping to post my story here to get feedback from others who may share similar experiences.
When I have moments of extreme emotion such as frustration, anger, rage or just simply being stressed out, most technology around me just fails and does random bizarre stuff that is almost unexplainable. Here are a few cases to point out what I am talking about.
Case 1: On a particularly stressful morning with university assignments, I was trying to read something on my iPhone and the print was too small. My partner said "Zoom in!" and demonstrated on his iPhone how you make the finger motion to zoom in on the screen. I tried this at least a half dozen times and it was like my phone was just frozen; it wouldn't do anything at all. I handed the phone to my partner and he demonstrated how easy this was for him to do; however, as soon as the phone was in my hands it completely froze and wouldn't do anything. I handed it back to my partner and it worked fine, but again when he handed it to me it froze solid!
Case 2: I was in the university library trying to do some research and was rather frustrated and annoyed that I couldn't find what it was that I wanted. I asked the librarian for assistance and she helped me find a few resources on the library card catalogue computer. I was trying to ask her where the books were located, and every time I pointed (didn't even touch, just pointed) at the screen it turned blue and got all fuzzy and started making white noise. When I would pull my hand back, it would return to normal; as soon as I would point again it would turn blue and go fuzzy and start making white noise.
Case 3: I was extremely frustrated and annoyed grocery shopping one afternoon. It was one of those days where everything I touched turned to pots; everything I picked up, I dropped or spilled. I went to go to the self-checkout to pay for my groceries. The first self-checkout I attempted to use scanned my first item and where it was supposed to make a simple "beep" began making a long drawn out "beep" and then the screen went completely black. The lady came over and directed me to another self-checkout register. This time, all I did was press start and the machine gave me an error message that no one at the store had ever seen before. So I went to the third self-checkout and this time when I scanned my loaf of bread it made a series of beeps in rapid succession and when I looked at the screen I noticed it was entering my loaf of bread multiple times (I scanned one loaf of bread and I counted 7 on the screen). The lady came and voided the extras off and stood by me as I scanned the next item (a bag of sugar) and again it made a series of beeps in rapid succession and then put several bags of sugar on the bill. Ultimately, I gave up and asked if I could go to the service counter to check out!
These are just a few of the many occurrences that have happened to me with technology. Everything from phones to televisions to computers and microwaves in the kitchen have failed on me during times of extreme emotion or stress. Call it coincidence if you like, but I just paid for a new hard drive in my partner's computer because we were in a rather heated argument while he was playing a computer game; all I did was made a hand gesture toward him and the computer during our argument and literally in that moment his computer just completely went black and started putting all these weird symbols on the screen and would not start again.
Does anyone else have problems with technology like this? If so, how do you handle it?
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Well that is very strange re the computer giving the same room to 2 guests... Funny, I also did that same job in the past and I never had that sort of thing happen, it is very strange.
Ok so you said that when everything got busy at 10:30pm you wanted to go in a corner and cry... So that just tells me that you feel either overwhelmed by the job, the dealing with guest after guest or you feel fear about what your responsibilities are in that job, fear that you won't be able to perform the job to a certain standard? By the way I can totally relate, it's a highly stressful job! In a way it's anxiety of sorts and you are feeling it very strongly at certain times, so you need to stop for a minute, recognize where this anxiety is coming from, what exactly is causing it. You can't have peace in your mind and body until you get intouch with yourself in that way, and you can't control how you feel about things (ie. Choosing to feel frustrated, choosing to feel fear - yes you DO choose to feel fear or not. You can just recognize fear as an emotion when you are hit with it and choose to disregard it.). It's almost as if your body is highly vibrating in a sense but your logical mind has not caught up to it. You are still afraid and fascinated I think by the "occurrences" of the odd electrical issues. And that's perfectly normal! It takes time and insight into yourself to be able come to terms with it all, be patient with yourself.
I would suggest practising meditation and yoga if you like to get intouch with your body and mind and help them "unite" in a sense. Many people, most people, are very very very much focussed on the outside world and allow it to affect them, empaths would and do feel this to a much much much higher degree. Be patient with yourself, it takes time and understanding and many levels of sort of peeling back the layers of comprehension of how the mind, body, spirit work together until you can gain a very good understanding.
And if you are interested in it, you may wish to ask your spirit guides to assist you, try doing this during a meditation... You might be surprised at the answers you get:)