Yes, all of it, nothing was saved. This was the verdict from my Samsung Customers Service consultant when I took my beloved S7 in for a needed checkup. The phone had stopped responding to anything. Everything on the phone was gone and he handed back the phone to me like a newborn baby, fresh and uncorrupted. I looked at the blank phone, clean as day and for a few minutes, I mourned the loss of everything on the phone. I know what you are thinking “please don’t tell me she did not backup!” Well, I am not going to answer, safe to say “it is all gone!”
After my ‘mourning period’ was over. It only lasted a few minutes as I said. Something amazing happened, I started to feel a lightness, it dawned on me I no longer have to battle with excess information, the numerous apps I was hardly using, the endless conversation I felt I might need to refer to one day, the self saving WhatsApp video and photos that were clogging my phone. Okay, I admit I will miss and possibly need some, but it is a new day and I could start afresh, with new thoughts, new conversations, new chats, and new photos, I could see my phone as a child seeing something for the first time. Okay, maybe that is stretching the truth too far. But I was pleased to have the opportunity to start again. Until I needed to make an important call, and then realised I didn’t have the number, oops!
Then I remembered ‘Smartswitch’ the facility that allows me to transfer all information from my previous phone and before you could say ‘Jack’ I had transferred all my legacy information back onto the newly cleaned phone. Some were a bit dated, all was back, the good, the bad and the ugly and yes I was able to make my much-needed call, but my lightness was gone I felt the weight of overload again. I was back to ‘too much’.
Our lives can be like that when it is just too much and we don’t seem to be able to let it all go so that we can start afresh or focus on the essentials. We all get clogged up in various areas of life, physically our wardrobe is full, our desk is overflowing, our mind is overloaded, our relationships are overstretched and we wonder why we are not making the progress we ought, we are overburdened and then we crash from the weight of life. When we get the opportunity to let it all go so we can breathe and experience lightness, we find we are too attached. We want it all, we feel we need all of it as our life we come to an end without it all. Maybe we should just let it all go, so we can experience the lightness, the freshness to start anew.
Beautiful Ivory 