digital is not real
Hello, I have been collecting dust on my shelves and junks in my devices. In light of the article I wrote, where I deleted thousands emails, hundreds pictures and tens files off my laptop, I realised how easy it was to get those junks. Why emails filled up my inboxes that quickly? I unsubscribed to a lot of marketing emails yet still see thousands in my inbox. I just gave up halfway and only control what I could.
The best thing that happened after a day of scrolling, deleting, sorting files and emails were my brain felt lighter. Imagine seeing 10k++ emails sitting in the inbox for god knows how long and finally got it down to a few thousands, it felt amazing. It's not important, probably not a significant habit. It doesn't take up physical storage, so why bother? However it does say about how easy to pile up clutter because it is digital. How everything is less important unless it's physical. The iced matcha pic on my phone is not important unless I print it out. It is forgettable, junk that fill up my space that made for more digital junk I gonna have as long as I'm alive. Maybe I shouldn't capture that much and stay living in the moment. I'll never remember every single details, but I'll remember the taste of iced matcha latte and buy it every month or so.
I'm having epiphany for no absolute reason. Like I should print out my travel photos because the digital doesn't feel real, like it never happened, like a fiction. Unless it's physical, I don't believe it. Maybe growing up seeing people on social media made me disillusioned on which is authentic and which is not. I don't know and writing this post feels like adding more questions, when my intention is to clarify my thought.
It should exist on physical world for me to believe that it's not fiction.
again; love analog,
reesa