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Why I’m Now A Pseudo-Buddhist

This might come out as insensitive and immature to those of you who’ve breezed through greater ordeals, but even the smallest triplet of losses in quick succession might have one running for spiritual solace.

A quick blow-by-blow:

  1. Internal hard-drive crash; managed to back up an image to my external hard-drive: May 19, 2011
  2. External hard-drive crash; no, I didn’t back this up: June 16, 2011
  3. Firefox crash; cleared my history, and didn’t restore the 23 tabs I had open: July 6, 2011

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