Refrigerators and Buddhist Wisdom

Today was a busy day at work with about 25 presentations to critique. That’s just normal stuff. The unusual thing that happened today was that the refrigerator stopped refrigerating. Over the years we’ve had several incidents of the defroster not getting rid of the ice built up in the air passages that cool the top section. I had no clue how to get the thing to do an extra defrosting…until today. After hours of web searches I found diagnosis codes for forcing the refrigerator to defrost. As I write these words, the internal temperature is dropping about 10 degrees every hour. Small successes give me goosebumps.

All the same, this cooling machine is, as the Buddhists tell us, already broken. It’s inevitable that it will break down and be irreparable. It’s already got one foot out the door. Now that I think of it, everything has one foot out the door. That’s a deep thought, if you want to go there. But, don’t go there. Just enjoy today. It’s we have.