To Succeed, You Must Try

This is how I got the reputation for being able to fix anything.

This morning, Nuria said to me, "My phone is broken. It won't turn on."

"Let me see it," I replied.

The phone was in one of those decorative cases. I removed the case from the phone. That didn't help. So I grasped the phone in both hands and gave it a little twist. The phone's screen lit up. I handed it back to Nuria.

"Try to call me."

She did, and the call went through to my phone. Her phone was working once more.

This is why some people feel that I can fix anything, as if I have a magic touch. No, sometimes I get lucky. Luck or not, you should always try. Do something. I thought, "Maybe this phone case is somehow putting pressure on a button and thereby preventing the phone from working." I didn't actually think it in all those words, it was more of a feeling. So I removed the case, but that didn't help. So I decided to twist the phone a little. It was really the only thing left to try. And that made the phone work again.

But why did it stop working to begin with? Who knows.