Save Yourself

My next Form­Spring ques­tion is,

“If cat­a­stro­phe struck and you had to flee your home, what items would you grab and why?”

Assum­ing all my loved ones made it out safely, I would def­i­nitely save my photo albums and if pos­si­ble, my com­puter. I’ve never been one to get attached to any of the houses I’ve lived in, and all of my pos­ses­sions can be replaced, but I would never want to lose my mem­o­ries. I believe that I am an aggre­gate of all my thoughts and actions, so every pic­ture is another step towards becom­ing the cur­rent me.

I keep telling myself I should scan and save my phys­i­cal pho­tographs, but I never get around to it. Maybe I should just use a scan­ning ser­vice. Hav­ing all my hard copies in one place with no backup is pretty dangerous.

When the hard dri­ves on my last com­puter died, I was heart-​broken. Luck­ily, I was able to recover some of my pic­tures, but I’ll always miss the older ones that are lost for­ever now. I would get the pho­tos over the com­puter, though, because there’s still a chance I can get get my hard drive restored, but I’d never be able to put ashes back together.

I can’t wait for the day when stor­age and band­width is so cheap that I can have all my impor­tant files safely in cloud stor­age. When that time comes, I have no idea what I would save from my burn­ing house. But I would be curi­ous about why my house keeps burn­ing down.

Tags: Computer, FormSpring, Pictures