An Outlet: Part 4

7 August, 2018 - IPod Came Back To Life

I woke up in the morning with a big headache and decided to bunk college today.

It may have partially been due to the fact that I hadn't completed my first ever homework of the new academic year.

I finally got out of bed at around 10AM and after completing my daily chores, I began clearing my study's 1st drawer. This drawer was only supposed to house my necessary stationary and things that I might need on a day to day basis. It had a lot of other things that I consciously cleared out. Most of the items now qualify as memories so I decided to put them in my memories drawer.

Yeah, I have a memory drawer. I'm too bad with remembering things that have happened to me (especially the good ones) so I need physical items to remind me of them. Which is also one of the main reasons why I started this journal.

Anyways, at some point I had come to realise that when I am purging on photos and other items that classify as 'bringing back memories', it is very harmful for me to keep the ones that bring about bad ones. I used to think that I need to hoard memories even if they are not-so-great ones but no, that's a mistake. Everytime I come across them and get reminded of the bad memories, my whole mindset becomes negative and I hatw that feeling. So yeah, now my memory closet only holds those items that keep me happy.

Havimg said that, I'm aware of the fact that I'm writing a journal - which practically holds all my memories for that particular time - and it contains both good and bad memories, but dude, that's the point of a jounrnal in the first place. Besides, one can always skip the bad chapters.

After that I did some much-needed cleaning of the wall(s) around my bed space. There is a clear difference between the newly cleaned area of the wall(s) and the ones that have remained unattended to since a really long time. The cleaned wall look so good and I'll have to find the time and energy to do the same to the rest of the wall-space.

This is how I spent my morning. Pretty productive I must say. I mean, I have practically been on my phone the whole time I am at home so this is MUCH better than that. I need to get back into the productive mindspace.

In the afternoon, I studied Finance and updated my digital notes. That and some YouTube pretty much took up my entire afternoon.

In the evening, I decided to call the person whom I had given my earphones to repair. I had given it 2 weeks back but had still not received a call for it. After about half an hour of trying to get through to the main guy, he told me something along the lines of 'come today or tomorrow'. Since I am a hopeful case while talking on call, he probably told me that he will call me by today or tomorrow so I have decided to visit the store in a day or two.

And right now, the best thing has happened. While clearing my drawers, I came across my IPod that I hadn't seen in ages! Well I had 'seen' it but I knew it was useless cause it wouldn't turn on. I decided to give it one more shot. I found my charger, and after a couple of minutes... IT SWTICHED ON!

MY DEAD IPOD CAME BACK TO LIFE AND I AM BEYOND HAPPY ABOUT IT!!! I EVEN REMEMBER THE PASSWORD!!!

This gadget was most dear to me during the 9th-10th grade. I count 9th-10th grade as one of my best years and this iPod and it's contents was what helped me remember that. But one day (766 days ago to be exact (I know this since my last notifications are that long back)), my iPod had turned on after a really long time but then it just wouldn't function. And I hadn't taken any back up. So I had officially lost all pictures, notes, anything that I had taken, written those two years. And it was heart breaking.

This was a major reason why I started this journal. I want a (near) permanent record of my time so I can look back at it and compare how far or far off I've come to what I was, what relations I had with people, etc.

It's currently bed time but you bet I'm not sleeping unless I get a back up of my iPod!!

Eeeeeepppp! I'm exciteddddd!