My storage is almost full

My storage is almost full

Google keeps telling me I’m almost out of storage!

I have been feeling like that lately.  Like I’m full up, like there’s no room for anything more, like enough is enough. 

I’ve realised though, that all I need do is remove the ‘stuff’ that is making me feel overloaded. I know, if I spend some time to find the storage stealer, there’ll be free space for the memories and moments that fill me with goodness and take up the spaces that I’m pleased are filled. 

Once upon a time I would buy a film for my camera, pop it in, snap the back closed and carefully wind the film through until number 1 showed in the tiny window. 

Oh, the attention it took, to choose and position my subject before pressing the shutter.  And watching the numbers scroll through each time I wound the film on, ready for the next snap.  It might take weeks to take all the shots. 

Then with the film spent and safely secured in its canister I would drop it off at the chemist, yeh go figure!  The wait for them to be developed, an excruciating week or so. Patience was definitely needed, none of this clicking of mobile phones capturing 20 million of the same darn subject. 

Once the allotted time had passed, back to the chemist I’d go.  I can still remember the anticipation of that walk, the opening of the precious envelope in the hope that maybe, I’d got one good shot.

And shockingly, there was a time when they came only in black and white! 

So, my pledge is to purge my online storage of all the dodgy photos, the double ups, the blurred ones. . .  The downloaded documents no longer needed.  Why the heck do they go to the ‘storage’ anyway?  I know, I’ll figure out how to turn the darn thing off!!

We don’t need the perfect picture to remember the feeling, the day, the people we were with.  My photos, many ensconced in old fashioned albums, fading with age, peeling at the edges, can rekindle a memory, where my heart quickens or my breath is caught unawares.  Reminders of days gone by, of people no longer in the land of the living and yet that glimpse can bring them instantly back to life. 

Anyway, my point is, to leave room for the good things.  The snippets in our days that make us smile and gladden our hearts.