Goodbye Clutter! Hello Organization!
I’m sitting here curled up on my sofa trying to go through all the files on my laptop and do some spring cleaning there. The other day I just about died when a blue screen appeared saying there was some defect found and blah, blah, blah. I logged in again in safe mode to try to see if I could figure out what was wrong. A friend suggested that I do a Disk Clean Up and a Disk Defragmenter, something that I have never done in the 4 yrs. I’ve had my laptop. How was I suppose to know? My whole life is on here so the thought of losing all of that information was really making me sick. So I did what she said and by the time I was done watching Step Up and The Lake House(including all the Special Features) the defragmenting was done. I restarted my PC with all of my fingers crossed and Yippeeee my Welcome screen appeared!!
Well, this morning I turned on my PC and the blue screen appeared again with the same message. I did the same thing again, this time the defragging part didn’t take so long and everything is fine, but now I’m afraid to turn off my laptop. So I’ve been going through my files deleting the ones I don’t need any more and backing up the ones I do on CDs. It’s been annoying, but I feel like if I don’t do it now before I try to fix this problem, I’ll lose a lot of important documents. I’m a recent graduate and a lot of my blood, sweat, and tears lives in my laptop, plus work related documents and personal stuff like photos and my recordings that you can’t get back once they’re gone.
As I’m going through this I realize that I hold on to things that should have been deleted a long time ago. Then I take a second to look at the stuff in my living-room and again symbols of me holding on to junk are everywhere:
- A gift bag of old mail sits next to my desk.
- A box of unwanted items that was given to me last year when a friend was moving.
- A purse full of gift cards that I have yet to use dating back so long that I’m embarrassed to say.
And the list goes on….. and that’s just the living-room. I haven’t even gotten to the clothes that I haven’t worn in years or that favorite shoe of mine that broke and I’m still holding on to it, for what? Why do we hold on to things we don’t need? If it’s not serving a purpose why keep it? I guess that could also apply to the mental junk we hold on to inside, or a person in your life that’s just a pain to be around who always has something negative to say. It’s just not necessary, you know. I know, “easier said than done”, but it’s something that we should think about. One thing at a time, so let me get back to getting my laptop in order and finding a solution to my log in problem.
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