When Cathy said Erik was caught up in my computer-building drama, I didn’t really believe her. She was just saying that he’d be interested in it because he’s a computer guy–not because he actually is<\/i> interested in it.<\/p>\n
I learned that I was wrong when week after week, Erik asked me how the process was coming along.<\/p>\n
When I started having difficulties and issued a general request via Facebook, he was pleased to lend me a DVD player.<\/p>\n
When I described how I was moving my files onto my new computer via flash drives because I couldn’t hook both hard drives up and have them read correctly, he chastised me for not calling him for an adapter.<\/p>\n
Then the computer troubles I thought I’d resolved began again. The OS that I thought I’d installed properly started giving me problems.<\/p>\n
I had to start over–and I wasn’t sure how exactly to start.<\/p>\n
“Call Erik,” Ruth urged me. “You heard what he said Friday night–‘If I have diet questions, I call you… If you have computer questions, you call me.'”<\/p>\n
I didn’t want to do it.<\/p>\n
My pride says I can do everything on my own. My pride resists asking for help. My pride wants to be in control.<\/p>\n
“Either you call him, or I’ll call him for you,” Ruth threatened.<\/p>\n
My throat started to close up and my eyes started watering. I didn’t want to. I didn’t want to ask for help. Didn’t want to admit (until I’d figured out how to solve it on my own) that I was having trouble.<\/p>\n
But I knew it wasn’t Ruth’s call to make.<\/p>\n
It was mine.<\/p>\n
I just had to be willing to humble myself enough to call for help.<\/p>\n
I called. We talked. Erik gave some suggestions. <\/p>\n
It wasn’t that bad.<\/p>\n
It didn’t kill me–only my pride.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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