There are two types of hoarding in today’s world: the stuff that clutters your living room, and the kind that clogs up your phone with 32,000 emails and 10,000 photos you’ll never actually print. And here I am, guilty as charged, digitally hoarding to a level that would make a GenXer’s Trapper Keeper from 1987 look like minimalism. Seriously, I have photos of brunch from 2012. Why? Who knows. Anxiety kicks in when I even think of hitting delete—what if I need to see that random omelet again?
And speaking of things we can’t let go of… let’s talk about Mike Tyson. Dude’s 58 years old, had a match with Jake Paul, barely moved, and still made $20 million. Sure, technically he “lost,” but c’mon—did he really? I mean, we’re talking about a guy who used to send shivers down spines with his punches, now getting paid big bucks to basically show up and breathe. Kind of like when I look at all my digital clutter and think, “Do I really need all this?” But much like Tyson’s fight, I do the bare minimum, hold on to the mess, and somehow justify it. He doesn’t need to prove anything to anyone anymore—just like I don’t need those 1,000 blurry shots of my dogs. Yet, here we are.
The moral of the story? Whether it’s digital junk or a fight between a once-feared boxer and an internet celebrity, we have a hard time letting go. It’s all anxiety-producing, but sometimes we just gotta ask ourselves—are we really losing when we still make a profit in some way? Tyson’s got his $20M, I’ve got 10 years of pixelated memories. Call it a win, or call it digital chaos. Either way, we keep fighting to hold on.
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psychologistmimi 
“Too much information running through my brain
Too much information driving me insane
Too much information running through my brain
Too much information driving me insane
I’ve seen the whole world six times over”
Understatement of Our Modern Age Also
Lyrics From ‘the Police’ Way Back in 1981
Just A Tipping Point Then as Now We aRe ALL
Literally “Ghosts In the Machine” indeed This Text
Is not Proof
Hehe Dear Miriam i Even
Exist for Now at Least Yes
Anyway Competence is Waning
in a World Once Again With 3 Seconds
And Less Literal Assessed Less than Gold
(Yikes! Yikes! Yikes! Tipping Icebergs and the
SOS TRuMPTaNiC On the High Seas again)
Fish Span Human Attention With Even ‘Net
Flix’ Sputtering in and Out With Last Night’s
Symbol of ‘The Great White Hope’ Another
EZ Prophetic
Song ‘Styx’
Related back
in ’78’ When i
Graduated HS With
‘Star Wars’ And The Such
Fortunately We Have AI Taking
Care of Record Keeping New
Human Cultural Info For
There was that Day
of No TV or
Even Radio
Where Once
Again Humans
Really Did Living Rooms then…
Reminder Note to Self: 2 TB Is Not Enough…
Yet Naked Enough Whole Complete That JusT Ain’t me
alone
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LeasT Hehe..:)
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Tyson probably needed the money – being famous can be expensive.
And everyone knows he’s older – it shouldn’t affect his reputation too much.
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Same here with the phone photos. Good, bad, I never delete any. I seem to think blurry photos are the ‘in thing’ now. I keep seeing people posting their blurry photos labeling them as intentional camera movement photos and people rave over them. I don’t get it, but that’s just me. I wouldn’t toss them out either. haha 🙂
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