Why does my cursor spin?

I just got a new MacBookPro, and I recently downloaded pages and number and keynote but even when nothing is downloading my cusor is a rainbow circle and it spins. I cant move anything on the desktop or open anthing on the desktop, and I am not really good with electronics stuff and I would really appreciate some help.
UNSURE of what to do.
Heaven

"the spinning wait cursor is displayed automatically by the window server when an application cannot handle all of the events it receives. If an application does not respond for about 2 to 4 seconds, the spinning wait cursor appears."
Read more here: http://www.macworld.com/article/151583/2010/05/spinningbeachballofdeath.html

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