Losing It
The laptop was getting crufty and slow. Performed a backup, then zero’d out the data on the hard drive, effectively “wiping the slate clean”. Re-installed the operating system and all the preferred applications. Started importing data back into apps such as Journler, NewsFire and Firefox, and found the data either unavailable or mangled beyond fixing.
I thought I’d be upset. What I felt, instead, was liberated.
All those bits and bobs, marked articles, and dusty bookmarks that I was saving because they were at one time useful are now gone. In the space left by their absence is the opportunity to start afresh, or to save nothing at all! The delightful experience carried me into a big house purge and re-organization. There’s so little I really need. This is wonderful.
photo credit: sea turtle
