Today, I woke with a mission- I would free up some room on my computer and copy the bulk of my digital camera pictures onto a CD.
I spent nearly four hours doing this. I painstakingly browsed through each picture; copying them, naming them, categorizing them. Then, the moment of truth came, and I wrote all the files onto a CD-R. Everything went smoothly, until…
Cannot write these files to CD. Please try again.
What? Could this really be happening? I spent all day on this!
I switched to another disk.
Cannot write these files to a CD. Please try again.
I was starting to panic. I checked the disks and made sure they were the right kind I needed. They were.
I dug through blank CDs and found another one. Then I stayed at the computer and stared at the screen as it tried again to write my files. Finally…
Copy Successful.
During my last nail-biting attempt to copy my files, something occurred to me: all I could think about for the past four hours was all the other things I could have been doing this morning. I took all this effort for granted; as if slow, meticulous, patient work on something, even something mundane, was somehow not worth my time. I was suddenly faced with the very real possibility that all that unappreciated effort might be completely in vain over something I could not control. Hours wasted. Hard work wasted.
My inner solution was to be grateful. Grateful that I still had the pictures on my computer, so nothing would be lost forever. Grateful that the pictures were taken because I had wonderful moments to make them memories. Grateful that I even have a computer to store photos on, and an apartment to keep that computer in. As a token of gratitude, I will post the (in my opinion) best photos I had the pleasure of spending four hours staring at below (and above):
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