It’s amazing how much information there is out there and even more amazing how many ways in which you are able to obtain. I began my information gathering with one link to CNN which produces CNN’s 5 Things. I like this link and the brief information it makes available about news around the world…not too much and not too little.
I began receiving that informative email a long time ago. It’s now been joined by at least two additional (and maybe more) CNN updates. If that isn’t enough, there’s The Daily Skimm which also sends more than one email per day. I’ve also managed to sign up for at least another two, maybe more emails a day that provide a wide variety of information from weird stories through the years to how I can be the best person possible when it comes to utilizing and working for Mother Nature’s best life.
This morning, I came to the realization that I’m receiving way too many informative emails. Should I choose to read every single one, I’d probably spend most of my day at my computer or on my I-pad just so I can acquire this (usually useless) information and delete these emails from my feed.
And, don’t get me started about the emails I receive about all the new books that are available, seemingly on an hourly basis. And, let’s not forget the emails from all the genealogical sites who want to connect me to another thirty-two family members of whom I’ve never heard.
Somehow, it definitely seems to me that my email feed has reached an unmanageable size and it’s time to cut it back. It’s going to take nerves of steel to hit the delete button on what now has to be thousands of emails I have not opened or read. I find myself thinking there might just be a diamond among those billions of words I’m sending into the ether…how can I just delete without knowing.
But, that knowledge is simply going to have to be lost, at least to me. I simply don’t have the time to devote to accruing all that information, nor does my brain have enough cells left to acquire and save. I think what I’ll do besides delete all these emails and block future ones is to simply Google or Search for a particular item in which I’m interested when my interest is aroused…should save a lot more time for blogging that way.