Nothing is as bad or did I learn the lesson?

Yesterday evening my laptop died.
Usually these are bad news, but I'm thinking of my last post. And a Swabian saying: "Nothing is as bad that it is not good for something else." (Did this translate? The original saying is "nix isch so schlimm, dass es net für ebbes guad isch") I had the feeling that this death would come sooner and later and a few days ago I bought a really nice one from one of my collegues. It takes me a long time to get used to new software and new technical stuff, so we decided - we have a lot of other work to do, though - to go slow and little by little and I would take the holidays to get used to the new one. Now the old one decided to quit completely.
And here I am, getting used to my new laptop step by step. Did I learn my lesson from yesterday? I hope. And I find myself thinking how often I don't want to get rid of old things - habits I know they hinder me, bitterness towards somebody and so on. Sometimes God just takes the old one away completely, so I do have to start the new thing. Feels like freedom :-)