Cleaning it out

Up until this day, oblivious to the fact that I had over 16,000 emails stagnating in my inbox, I decided to take action. After spending over 5 hours going through the emails in groups, I have but 15 emails in my inbox and a wealth of valuable lessons for the future.

My thoughts stem from the classic argument of nature v. nurture and its practical implications on our development. In the quest of moving through 6years of emails ranging from intimate conversations from past girlfriends, to the occasional "whats up" from an old friend, these emails represent the evolving state of my existence, a sort of portal into the past. Allowed to peer into the hypothetical pages of my life, which filled over 4GB of space on some server somewhere in the world,  lies a history of my development. 

Reading these emails it becomes apparent, at least to the writer, that these correspondents represent the various results of complex patters of though (some not soo much) with the impetus being whatever was deemed satisfactory at the time to create the justification or reason to perform the action. As the patterns of though were influenced by interpretations of past experiences and often times the immediacy of pain or pleasure, it becomes obvious that the multitude of experiences creates a bank of stored perspicacity for which to measure future desires/possible actions against. 

In the spirit of brevity, I will share but one lesson which was interpreted to be of the greatest importance.  

-Take time to reflect on the past and future alike but make sure to give thanks to both equally, for they had an equal part in creating the person you are today.-