Consolidating My Way To Nirvana

I am not the kind of person who makes to do lists, grocery lists, etc. I am fairly disorganized and often I will forget deadlines, miss appointments and ignore emails. This isn’t because I’m unreliable when it comes to things of the utmost importance (I can focus when I need to), it just means that I’m lazy. I’ve always been one to take full advantage of the allowance of extensions, the option to reschedule, and I can tell my email account to reply FOR me if I want to. Amazing. So when I stumbled upon Listography.com, I didn’t think that it was that hot. Who wants to sit in front of the computer all day and list things? Are there really that many things that need to be listed? But sure enough, the longer I browsed, the more I loved the bright colors and the funny little titles (super powers I wish I had, why do I eat these things, confessions, super average human powers I wish I had, notable gastronomical thingies). Listography possibilities? They are ENDLESS! And so, as if you couldn’t already tell, I now have this: http://listography.com/chelsi

The first list I made is called About Me: My Internet Accounts. Give me a break, I couldn’t think of anything else. I just sat there staring at an empty text field thinking, why oh why did I make this dumb account, I have too many accounts on the net, and voila, My Internet Accounts was born. Do you know how many things I’ve listed? Eighteen. There are eighteen things on the net that I’ve signed up for, and the worst part is, I’m positive that eighteen isn’t even close to the actual total amount. I’m sure that I’m forgetting like 40 billion others simply because it’s been so long.

After making this first list I sat there and I stared at it for a really long time. I finally concluded that my internet life is ridiculous and just as cluttered and disorganized as my real one, so, I started purging. Vox? Gone. Photobucket? Adios. Last FM? Bye, bye, bye. That’s it for now; just three, but it’s a start.

Ironically, creating another account on the Internet is responsible for the deletion of others. Not so ironically my second list is called, Strange Conditions: Things I Do Too Many Effing Times a Day and includes: avoid my email, and, justify procrastination. Sometimes you don’t see things about yourself clearly enough to make connections until you take the time to study them.

I’m making my listography account my homepage because I spend a great deal of time on the computer and I’m convinced that if I’m slapped in the face with the things I hate to think about in bullet form, I’ll be that much more encouraged to continue deleting, continue organizing, continue to reevaluate and thus, continue down the path towards enlightenment.