After much frustrating detective work and considerable Googling, we discovered that somehow Windows 10 had created an alternative profile using my sister's details. When she started her laptop, this false profile took possession and hid her precious documents and emails from her. All appeared lost! Restoring her true profile was no simple matter. Tweaks to the registry and reversing settings involved. But at last her "real self" was back in possession, and the "lost" documents were once again accessible.
Which got me thinking about how it can be in life too. Sometimes our real self can be hijacked by a false self. It's the stuff of many a movie and novel. A loving father and husband lets lust hijack his marriage in favour of an affair with his secretary. An employee lets greed turn her into an embezzler. A believer lets doubt destroy his fidelity and hope. Less dramatically, I can let anger or jealousy or pride or laziness lead me away from my true path in life. When this happens our best qualities of self are hidden and no longer available.
Getting out true self back in control is often not an easy task. It's not just a matter of a few keystrokes and all is OK again. There is need for serious self-searching to discover what went wrong, and then the tricky process of reversing it all and removing the false self from control. It is only when our true profile is at work that we can live authentically and allow our many gifts and strengths bear fruit.
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