One of my external hard drives broke over the weekend. She was actually the first external I purchased about two years ago at something like $250 for a 320GB drive. I just purchased a new 500GB drive named Scylla. While all my music was safely transported from one drive to another, iTunes kept statistics over all my music and it’s all now reset. No loved tracks, no most played. Worse yet, all my playlists have been erased as well during the process of my music finding a new home.
I suppose I should view this in an optimistic fashion, what with my recent epiphanies and view this as a new start, a new 12minds of sorts. And, to be honest, I mostly do, but I read somewhere that every change is a death of sorts, and it makes sense…it is. Every change, every fresh start, by its very words, mean that something preceding the event, action, or moment has died and completed its task.
Can we all look at things like that? That’s life? Rather, with bigger issues than one losing their Running or their Sleeping mixes…how willing are we to accept change of any kind? How do we distinguish when to fight, when to accept, when to object, etc. My offhand thoughts are that this ties back in with the Rock and the Spark. At the end of the day, how easily can one distinguish? I guess one wonders, though, how easily should one be able to distinguish? How easy should it be to say: “This is over. This stage of my life is complete and I now move to this. It is neither better nor worse, but it is.” Be it breakups, the deaths of loved ones, leaving a job/school for something new, how easy should it be? Is that even the appropriate measure of importance? Part of me thinks that it shouldn’t be…not at all.
Ramble aside, I think my point was to lament the loss of my fabulous sleeping mix and my semi-rockin’ Running mix while also celebrating the cool 500GB toy I got (total memory available on my three External HDs? 1.3TBs. Yeah, that’s right…Terabytes).
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Only because you’re bragging about it: Logos is made up of about 1.5TBs internal — never mind Hallow and two other external drives.. But that’s about standard these days. It is still pretty cool though, I give you that.
As far as resets and being able to start fresh.. I’d say that Zen would agree much with you. But I’d have to wonder about a person who cannot keep their memories.. who forgets the previous day every time they wake up.. Is that a good life? Is that what any of us should strive/wish for?
The answer, of course, must be some sort of balance, won through consciousness and personal responsibility. To be able to remember, but also be able to leave behind and change those things that should be left/changed, and to keep close, protect and pursue those things that are worth keeping.
I’m reading a book at the moment (Earthsea) [ via ] which follows a character who becomes threatened by a consequence of his power. I’m thinking of it, because I am thinking of your rock and whether it should come from outside, or whether it should come from inside.. And I’m not sure the answer is true for everyone. People are not all created equal. But the way it seems to follow in this book is that the character does rely on an external rock.. and then he reaches for/develops an internal rock. Offhandedly I’d say a powerful person needs both.
My Wii Balance Board (he does need a name, I suppose. I’d call him Benny (he seems like a benny) but that name’s taken by one of my USB hubs..)) ANYway, my Wii Balance Board (name pending) likes to tell me that if I lose my balance, I should stay on the board while reaching out to furniture or leaning on another person for support. The concept is maintained that you will seek and develop your own center of balance.
Thinking more about it, I don’t think it’s a dependency.
..and now I’ve spent the last few minutes thinking about centripetal and centrifugal forces and the balance of two objects locked into depending orbits and whether that, then, seems to be both rock and spark, or at least tempering weight plus gasoline.. But when one lets go then you lose both rock and spark and everything flies arpart and probably sits rather dazed and disturbed for a while.
Enough! I’m going to eat my grapes and cherries and do my work-work and think of names for a friendly Wii balance board.
Look at this as a chance to reset your playlists and play counts. Now you can choose all new songs and all new playlists. Its kinda like blowing up the whole world and starting over. Anyway, have fun with the organizing songs.