How do you make someone disappear from your life? How
many contacts and messages and emails and photos must you delete before they
are totally erased? With modern technology there is always one more step, one
more “saved” addressed that just won’t go away after pressing that huge X in the
upper corner. Each time I press it, each time I “confirm deletion” my heart
breaks off another piece.
How long does it take for my throat not to tighten when I
see that name in my “Most Contacted” or “Recommended Recipients” lists, and will
it hurt even more when the name fades away to join the pile of invisible “Unused
Contacts”?
There must be a service someplace that can wipe an entire
system – a full history of a person’s existence in one’s life so that you can
really have a clean slate. But then is that really what I want? If someone
approached me this very minute and offered to take all these electronic memories
away for five bucks, would I pay them? Or is there something in the back of my
head that wants just one little corner of this person to exist , someplace
hidden in my phone or my Gmail so that when I trip over it 10
years from now I smile and remember all the perfect beauty and hearty laughs.
Maybe it’s too early to empty my recycle bin….. I’ll do
it tomorrow.
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