Today I cleaned out my inbox for the first time. I’ve had the same e-mail address for about a decade and have never really done a full sweep of it, so I had to sift through well over twelve hundred individual messages to see if anything was important or worth keeping.
 
None of it was.
 
Not that there weren’t any neat things I’d forgotten about – all the old messages from now-ex girlfriends, weird forwards that my spam filter doesn’t tolerate anymore, and loads of random interactions with people I haven’t thought about in a very long time. It was cool to check out Young Tim’s electronic interactions from the perspective of bitter failure Old Tim. I even kind of wish I could go back and edit some stuff, but that’s not the point of this pseudo-cleansing experience.
 
Now I have an empty inbox to fill.