This kindle keyboard is turning into 8 years old. It’s always been treating me well-- a sincere e-reader. And today it suddenly got frozen, and I thought its time’s arrived... But no, after I tried to do a “soft” reset, it was brought back to life. All thanks to some amazing guy on the internet. The steps are as follows:

Hold the power switch to the right for 20 seconds.  Release.

Press the Home button for 60 seconds.  A “Reset” screen will appear.

Hit the DEL key on the keyboard.  This brought my unit back to a stable state, as if I’d done a reboot or a soft reset of the device.

I’m told that if this doesn’t work, you have to do a hard reset of the device, which is the equivalent of wiping & resetting your Kindle.  This procedure will wipe out all your books and require you to re-download them to your Kindle which, while not disastrous, will take time.  It will also lose your bookmarks & settings. To do a hard reset, type the word “reset” in the above screen after following step 1.  Warning:  There’s no turning back from this once you type the entire word in and there’s no “Are you sure?”

Credit first goes to this post: https://kurtsthoughts.com/2013/01/02/howto-softhard-reset-your-kindle-3g-w-keyboard/, then to whoever the hell originally knew this trick and shared it.

Ugh, so many emotions in just under half of a minute. Talk about overload. Confusion, fear, relief and happiness. Ahhhh, how frustrating... though, it did make me realize more so just how much he means to me, as a thousand would-be memories rushed through my mind in those moments. Things we've done, things we could do, things that I would love to do.

I don't understand why it's him... I think it always has been, ever since we met. To think; almost eight years has passed since that fateful day. I wonder if anything permanent will come of our experiences together, and our feelings for one another. I can't deny... it would be awfully ideal.

Thing is, when I commit to someone, that's it. Especially when I get a chance at being with my first love? Seriously. Who would, in their right minds, pass that up? I almost did, and though there has been a lot of heartache, these past couple of months, I can't say that I truly regret it. I'm going to keep trying for this, because I think... no, I know that he's the one.