Narrative Essay On Hard Drive

A few years ago I got a call from my grandpa. His computer just crashed and called to see if I could salvage the hard drive for him. Contemplating while on the phone if I even knew what a hard drive was, but I agreed none the less. I pulled up and went into his office and looked at his old HP desktop. I unscrewed the side panels and removed them and gendered at the rat 's nest of wires and the strange components. I didn’t know where to start, but that’s what YouTube is for. I mimic what the fourteen year old was doing on the screen and began to pull wires and start unscrewing things. I pull out what looks to be just a brick of shiny metal and as the fourteen year old tells me, I did it. I honestly felt pretty good. Not everyone is good with technology and I like it I thought. I asked my grandpa if I could take the rest of the computer home to use and he agrees. I get home and the first thought I had was to pull the hard drive out of my laptop and try to …show more content…
Being able to look at both sides of the story, then making a decision based off both sides. The people who think about this extremely objective topic are usually people who have time to think. A man who has to worry about where or how he is going to get his next meal isn’t thinking about what the true meaning of life is. Sure he will look up towards the sky and shout to the heavens wondering why him, but that’s about as far as it goes. Me writing this essay right now, that’s time I will never get back. One’s decisions are finite. Socrates once said “The life that is unexamined is not worth living.” This quote appeals to me, but I think life can be lived without being examined. Hedonism, the pursuit of pleasure, for example focuses on the net of pleasure one gets from life. I compare it to my vacation to Chicago or Yellowstone, but hedonism loses meaning when we need to register to fully understand what we