basically this post is brought to you by the fact that i'm trying to not hoard so many of the images i save/screenshots i take while i'm browsing online and if i post it on my blog or put it in a zine i feel like i can delete it from my laptop.
when i set up my new laptop with Linux i had to clear an external hard-drive and all that was on it was a folder from probably 15 years ago full of images i'd saved while i was browsing the internet. actors i liked, girls in nice outfits, quotes i enjoyed, drawings that inspired me. i just deleted the whole folder.
it was (and still is) important for me to collect those things and i do like to keep a lot of stuff but for the most part i was looking through them thinking "why the fuck did i save that?" and i knew the folder had served it's purpose and i just deleted the whole thing without even looking at all of it.
and it felt really good and gave me a hard-drive to use for something i wanted to do now. and now is all we really have, right?
i've thought a lot lately about how doing the collecting, making the list, organising the pile, is an activity in it's own right for me. i find these types of activities satisfying and there doesn't need to be a next part, it is what it is and that's good.
(i'm sorry future me that's wishing i'd kept everything, it's actually for your own good)
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