Open Windows

Are you the type of person who tends to have trouble letting go of the day’s events?  Do things that happen during the day tend to be on your mind throughout the evening and into the next day?

Perhaps a story would be of benefit.

I do a lot of work on computers.  In the past, I tended to leave many different windows open on my computer.  Many of those would be browser windows with multiple tabs left open, just in case I wanted to come back to it later in the day.  Or some other time even during the week.  The problem is that my computer tends to become bogged down after awhile.  It begins to run slower and slower even though I haven’t really opened additional windows to all the ones I already have open.  And when I go home in the evening, I put my laptop into sleep mode to take it with me.  The problem is that it takes longer and longer to go into sleep mode and longer and longer to come out of sleep mode.

So it occurred to me recently to set a policy for myself.  When I put the computer down I will close all open windows.  The interesting thing is, this forces me to save any open work.  I can always re-open it later, but it doesn’t have to chew up resources of my computer.  And when I put the computer into sleep mode, it goes there very rapidly, and comes back out of it very rapidly.  It’s not bogged down with open tasks that I may, or may not return to.  And I find that a lot of times, when a person makes a change like this, it reflects what is taking place, in a broader sense, in their own minds.

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