Thursday, August 06, 2009

What Would Jesus Save? Meditations on my inbox

I have two colleagues who are known as “The Deleters”. They delete nearly every email they receive, keeping their inbox to a very tidy minimum. They are even known to exercise mass deletion…Too many emails at once?...After a brief scan of the subject lines to catch anything important, just delete them all! They like to think of this as a selective, voluntary computer crash.

I, on the other hand, am an email packrat. I can’t seem to throw anything away! Not only this, but I don’t manage to stay on top of my email, so I end up with hundreds of ones flagged to indicate they need a reply and others that have never been read. Yet I hang on to them all! I recently discovered the joys of the “archive” function, so now I have moved all my emails from 2003-2005 out of my inbox…yet I didn’t have to delete them! Yes people, I have kept emails from 2003 and still don’t want to get rid of them.

This brings me to my meditation…What would Jesus save? Any thoughts?

2 comments:

who else talks about Trader Joe's? said...

My meditation today: if I was a Trader Joe's product, what would I be? I thought sweet and spicy pecans, a co-worker thought I'd be green tea...oh, and I just checked and I still have all my emails from '02 on, and apparently 1501(!) unread. So, instead of selectively deleting, I just selectively don't read. :)

Anonymous said...

I am just like you! I end up flagging so many things that it negates the purpose of the flag. I just went through the process last night of cleaning out my inbox as well...I simply made folders to keep all of them in, because I couldn't delete them either...

Miss you friend. Hope you are doing well.