Anybody else have the screensaver application that cycles through all the pictures on your computer? Except maybe that certain subfolder that has the pictures you don't accidentally want filling your 17" screen while your nieces and nephews are watching? Yea! That one!
Well, I often let my computer go to screensaver just to get the G (ish) rated photo show and I've been finding myself turning away lately when pictures of my most recent ex-idiot (the one who- among other things- spent $200 on a dog after I bought him a plane ticket to come visit and then declined to spend money on anything the whole time he was here) flash across the screen. Watching the show today I decided that I should delete the pictures but found that I couldn't do it
Problem 1) too sentimental. Bad as some of the times were (he didn't shower for three days and actually put on deoderant before getting into bed), there are good memories, and more importantly, good lessons, in there somewhere
Problem 2) what's the point? I don't get to drag and drop him from my life; can't clear the cache of locations visited with him. There's not enough memory that would be freed up in my attempt to rid myself of his memories so I've left the pictures...for now.
I'm sure one night I'll have one too many tumblers of Diet Pepsi & Gelson's brand Canadian whisky and scour my computer for all related files, send them to the garbage and permanently delete them. But c'mon...I know myself too well. Should that stage of drunkenness ever be reached, I'll run to the geek squad the next morning, claim to have no knowledge of their disappearance and get them recover my shitty pictures...only to delete them again two months later!
However, I don't see it happening any time soon, because there's just no passion exerted, no finality, no point achieved from point, click, delete.
PS- I never EVER tore up a picture of David Duchovny. Even when he married Tore-up Leoni. Bet y'all have torn up a picture or two...
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