Well, I finished up the "Fun Stuff" file! It lived up to its name - there was definitely some fun stuff in there! Also a bunch of junk. I really have no idea why I felt the need to hang on to some of that stuff.
One file in particular really needed to go away. I had a pretty toxic landlord situation in Hawai'i, and after a really bad dispute between us, I sat down and wrote him a nasty e-mail in the heat of the moment, and before hitting "send" I just saved it to my computer. I guess I wanted to have it to read later so I could get my blood boiling all over again?? I even labeled it "Andy vitriol" because that's all it was - just a string of insults and spite without much purpose. Was it satisfying to bang on the keyboard as I typed it? Sure. Was it helpful to my well-being to keep it after all this time? My goodness, no. So I deleted it. I didn't even open it again to read it before sending it to the recycle bin. Does it mean I've forgotten what happened, or that it won't make me angry if I think about it again later on? Of course not. But it's a symbolic throwing away of the digital "baggage" associated with the whole drama, and that really matters to me.
A bunch of other random crap also went the way of the dodo, and I added some new sub-folders to organize what I decided to keep, like some really hilarious attempts at poetry from college and high school - didn't we all think we were so profound back then??
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