My computer refused to print a document the other day, so I restarted my computer, which is something that I don’t do terribly often. When it booted back up, Firefox updated itself, and suddenly everything in the browser–all my settings, passwords, bookmarks, etc.–was gone. Just gone. No idea why.
This has never happened before, and it’s been inconvenient, to say the least. I don’t always write down passwords, and even when I do, that doesn’t mean they’re easy to find. It took me a while just to find the password for this blog!
What’s really sad is all my lost bookmarks. Years and years of bookmarks. From the bill-paying websites (so necessary!) to the oodles of great-sounding recipes and interesting articles (so promising!), it’s all gone.
But this loss is also liberating. Everything in the browser is fresh again. I am motivated to change the settings to what’s ideal for me, rather than “the way it’s always been.” And every bookmark that I wasn’t using was like a little unfinished task. Now they are all gone, so it’s not my fault that I’m not using them. I am guiltless. I am free.