System Restore

I have downloaded the movie Sicko in torrent but when it was time to watch it, my Windows Media Player only played the audio and not the video. So i ran Gspot to determine if i lack a codec to make it run. Apparently, I lack the codec FMP4. So I searched for a free download of this certain codec and when i found one I immediately installed it. When i played again the movie in WMP, i was so happy to see the opening credits rolling but it was upside down! One google search suggested that I just turn my monitor 180 degrees (hehe) but even if i do, the image was still flipped horizontally. When i searched again google to determine the cause of this problem, I learned that my pc lacks DivX 6 decoder and I should download it then it will turn everything right side up.


So i did.


Unfortunately, not only did i again revert to the audio-only-no-video scenario of Sicko but all my downloaded movies failed to play in WMP!


Baffled as to what to do next, I again searched google. And the immaculate next step: system restore.


So i did a system restore and I was brought back to my system settings 8 hours ago.


I played the movies I have downloaded and they played perfectly.

I played Sicko and expectedly, there is still again audio but no video.


I played Sicko in Nero Showtime and it worked. (sigh...)



But I was already not in the mood to watch Sicko so I just pondered on what had happened. And I suddenly wished there is a system restore in real life. Some kind of a button and you can, at any time, at my beck and call, push it and I will be transported back to a certain time in my life where happiness preceded sadness, health is wealth and sickness is just an idea, prevention will be taken instead of running around for a cure. A place in time where there were still no problems.


And when I have that power to system-restore my life, I will choose to go back to:

1. mama is still alive
2. papa is strong and he can still carry me and take me around
3. money is scarce but i have fewer responsibilities
4. we still have an ayi who cooks, do the market and cleans the CR for us
5. when I still haven't discovered credit cards
6. my biggest problem was the graded recitation in school the next day

But time has to fly and it carried away with it health, youth, existence and some other elements of my comfort zone. But it also carried with it experiences, growth, maturity and wisdom to sustain me in this trek called life.