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Digital Memories
Tuesday, March 04, 2008
Sort through your email. Honestly, sort through all of your old email and that is enough to start making you feel nostalgic. Then maybe you'll write that old friend the letter you've been meaning to, and maybe you'll rebuild a bridge...
My email inbox is always 1% full.. 1% of my life on the internet... It's that one percent that matters here on the vast web... Because that one percent is filled with hope, desire, trust, experience and most importantly, truth, love and heartbreak. I can't help but think about how far I've come since I opened my email inbox. And it really wasn't that long ago either.
I have hurriedly dashed off one line messages, angry one line messages, sad one line messages... Then I have paragraphs... And finally, I come to incredibly large ten paragraph emails, and a paragraph in my book is seven lines or something. And in every one of those emails is something that is a part of me... Be it a secret crush that never came to much, a not so secret crush that was, well... the best nightmare of my life, letters to friends whining, seeking help and celebrating, letters to family wishing them Happy all-sorts-of-things, and nagging them for advice on not so many... I came across emails with feeling in them, as opposed to a wall post that won't make a tiny bit of difference to you tomorrow. I would not have found a pillar of support and a best friend had it not been for that inbox, and tons of email traffic back and forth... And everytime that bond starts to fade, A simple email will do... no questions asked about where and why the absence... An email is all it takes...
Honestly speaking, that email inbox forged me friendships that I will never forget, and it documents every smile and every tear that was ever cried by me or a Super Awesome People (don't ask :) ). That email inbox holds more worth than any number of "social networking sites" that you throw at me... It really puts stuff in perspective... How I've changed over the years, how I've grown and how I can now say that I have a brain... It's a timeline of sorts for your soul...
So yeah, If you've been on the internet long enough, take my advice, and if you're not incredibly busy, just sift through your inbox... Find a window to you :)
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oooh.. and have you ever read an email written by yourself and felt embarrassed? like something you wrote to someone when you were really angry, or an outburst of emotions. They are the funniest things to read after like 3 months. I, for one, can never believe that I could write such things!
And good you are over your morbid phase.. :D
i receive a lot of junk mail. i'd rather talk to the person than email them
wow...this brings back memories. and heartache that still lingers :( i just wrote an entry about love too! LOL
hey i really like your blog, i've been off the internet for a few months, but i'm back now.
ALL MY E-MAILS ARE OLD!! LOL!
i have a box in my closet of old letters i recieved from people. also a bunch of letters i never sent. really wierd stuff. someone suggested to me once that when you write a letter filled with emotions, you should hold on to it for a couple of days, read it and then decide if you still want to send it.....good advise i think. i have dozens of unsent letters THANK GOD!!
Except me, right noelia?
Yeah, emails are just like old letters and old pictures, they bring back memories. There's a million things that do that. All that nostalgia is already there in your brain, you just need something to bring it to the surface. Something tells me you were sifting through emails sent to the girl you were with...
Yeah I've read an email written by myself. And yeah I was embarrassed! Its fun to do though. I like looking back on my inbox every so often xx
good post.
Lovely post. I just went through my inbox today.
so i did this early and i found two emails.
one was what i wrote to this kid i adored in 10th/11th grade. it was angry and i was going on about how he broke my heart and i didn't understand how he could do that to me.
the second one was something i wrote about the same kid like two months after the email i found to him about how i kept crying and how much i even missed him as a friend...
now we are kinda friends.
and it's weird.
especially after reading those emails.
Y'know
you do have a point
i just did go through my inbox the other day and realised the older i got the lesser the amount of close friends i had:|
nice post!! but when's the next one cumin out!??!?1 :)
UPDATE! QUICKK! :P