Security Blanket

So I didn’t have a New Day like I planned. My par­ents and I were too busy fin­ish­ing up the move and unpack­ing at the new place.

When you move, what is the last thing you pack up at the old place and the first thing you unpack at the new place? I think the answer and rea­son­ing behind it says some­thing about you. It’s sim­i­lar to the ques­tion, “If your house was on fire (but every­one is safe), what is the one thing you would save?” Except I think that ques­tion is over used. Maybe it’s all those years of APhiO interviews.

For me, the answer in all three cases is the same — my com­puter. The way I see it, if every­one is safe, I don’t have any­thing else to worry about. All my pos­ses­sions can be replaced. But my com­puter con­tains intan­gi­bles like my work and my mem­o­ries. (I don’t print my pic­tures.) That’s why I love cloud stor­age like the var­i­ous Google apps and pro­grams like Drop­box. In the past, I’ve had hard drive crashes wipe out years of pic­tures, and I nearly went insane try­ing to recover files from dam­aged dri­ves. (And that is why I can’t wait for SSDs to become affordable.)

But get­ting back on topic… the last thing my dad took down and the first thing he put up at the new place was the fam­ily shrine.

So what does does it say about me that my com­puter is my secu­rity blan­ket? Am I miss­ing some­thing, spir­i­tu­ally speaking?

Tags: Computer, Dinhternet, Family, Pictures, Work