Gmail has started a little alert at the top of my inbox, alerting me that I am nearing my inbox capacity. I have never been one to clean out or sort emails — I feel accomplished by answering them in a timely manner and then watching them file down the page.
I started clicking through to see how many emails it took to fill up Gmail. The answer is over 38,000. Five years of email.
I’m going through and deleting, but being of sentimental nature I am saving emails that are important to me. In the past five years, there have been a lot of ups and downs navigating the media and classical music industries. And through all of it, I keep reading all these emails from friends helping me back to my feet. Helping me build websites (like, ahem, this one). Helping me design flyers for my shows. Helping me revise my resume over and over. Helping me by coming to every single weekly show I put on. And then taking me for beers after.
Sometimes email can feel very isolating, but today it reminded me of my community.
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