How Am I Doin'

“Pain is a message asking for our help.”

~ Gerald Epstein

I actually started writing this email yesterday (Friday),hence the How Am I Doin' title.

I found myself frustrated when I went to pull up a picture quote to use having lost all of my saved work including the file where I store quotes for future reference.

I saved my started email and set about once again trying to recover the lost data.

I am happy to report that after over a week of setbacks and futility, I have in fact been able to recover all of my files.....all 500,000 plus.

Now I begin the task of sorting through this mess,deleting that which is unnecessary and saving and cataloging the ones that I want.

It has been one heck of an adventure and one that has yet to be resolved completely.

Opportunities abound!

I can now become better at organizing myself (once I figure out how to save the items I want to save).

I am setting up a back up system (not sure if it will be on a hard drive or cloud based).

And I can cull out the garbage that I no longer want or need.

There are even some files that I had lost in the past that I can now store and have for future reference

All good stuff!

Just a lot of work.

I suppose if I enjoyed doing this kind of stuff I would be more enthusiastic about the road ahead.

Unfortunately, I view this as a detour rather than a short cut on my Journey.

As I weed through these files, I find myself getting bogged down .

Many of the files are duplicates of files that have been replaced or updated by newer versions.

Some are outdated and obsolete making it easy to just dump them.

And then there are those that open old wounds.

These are the ones that I must avoid.

Getting caught up in the evils of the past serves no purpose what so ever.

Those days are long gone.

The wounds have healed and the scars are minimal.

It's time to just move forward once again.

Hopefully a little wiser and a lot smarter than I once was.

Shabbat Shalom!