Upgrade your software regularly.

Genevieve Bosah Ph.D
2 min readApr 14, 2022

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Its 8:30 am on a Thursday morning here in the very warm city of Abuja and today I got to work early because I had a lot to accomplish and needed to get a head start on all pending tasks.

I had sat down and turned on my system and brewed myself a cup of tea as I was opening documents to begin work, a Skype message come in from an old friend. We had recently re-connected and had decided to stay in touch.

The causal response to a friendly hello from a friend turned in to an intense walk down memory lane and a journey back to younger selves and decisions we had made in the past.

At 9:46, we had travelled as far as 16 years back in time to the time when we were young, free and in love. To the time when our love was true, pure and unadulterated but naïve. We had gone through the decisions we made that have taken us on the different paths we presently are on and it brought back floods of memory. The good, the not so good, the joys and pains. It all came rushing back. Life was good back then. These memories are priceless indeed, we agreed.

At the end of the conversation, I said to my friend who is a computer guru and programmer, “Friend, you know I really loved you”. He replied, “I know, I wrote the programme, but I just didn’t know when a bug entered it”.

Profound statement! We had to carry on with our day but that statement hasn’t left me. I have been mulling over it and I can draw analogies with life. I know how frustrating it is for keep receiving notifications from Apple to upgrade my phone.

Photo by Clint Patterson on Unsplash

Upgrades are not because there is a problem but it helps to prevent problems. It helps to secure your operating software and written programme the relationship is operating on. In a relationship, how often to do check your software for bugs and viruses? How often do you upgrade your software to continue functioning at optimal level.

Perhaps, you need to go back to the beginning and like a phone, restore the relationship to factory setting because you may have downloaded all sorts of apps that are causing problems and you don’t know where it is coming from.

Upgrade your software today or check for bugs.

Lots of Love,

G.

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Genevieve Bosah Ph.D
Genevieve Bosah Ph.D

Written by Genevieve Bosah Ph.D

PhD in Media, Communication and Sociology |Communication Strategist & Brand Specialist | Writer | Lecturer

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