my husband and i decided to give my computer to a neighbor kid. my husband's mac is nicer and it's enough for us; we don't need two. i haven't used mine in a while actually; it's been in a box. but i knew i had some personal stuff on it that i wanted to save and/or get rid of before i gave it to my neighbor, so we set it up to do that. pictures...music...documents. i was skimming over the documents briefly the other day and very quickly realized i didn't know what the hell to do with them. i mean my resume's a no-brainer but i bought that computer immediately after a really weird thing happened to me and fucked me all up. it was a spiritual experience. when it first happened i thought i was supposed to write a book about it, and then realizing it wouldn't be possible to convey what i was going through in a format like that, i wrote for myself, as a form of therapy. what happened to me was traumatic, and my reaction to it was appropriate, and not necessarily pretty. the experience was isolating, frustrating, and disorienting and reading those files would kind of be like reading a train wreck. on the other hand, the experience was the most enlightening, meaningful, life-altering event that's ever happened to me, and though it was extremely difficult to deal with initially, over time, the results have been extremely beneficial to me. i know i'm going to forget the details, and i'm going to forget what it was like to go through it, and i don't know if i want to forget. yet i'm sitting here writing this on sciforums instead of doing anything with those files on the other computer. what do you guys think i should do with them?
Download them onto a DVD and save them for awhile then if you do not use them just erase the DVD or throw it away.
or u can put them on a DVD and "lose" it for a few years... I have soooo many different CDS full of old things I forgot about!! I love looking at the cd's a I made 10 years ago!!!!! how crazy is it I can actually say that?!
