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NEGLECTED EMAIL
For All The Orphaned Emails
Is this hoarding or the entire opposite?
My wife looks at her email every now and then. I check it for her a bit more often in case there is something important she should see, but I only started doing that recently, so she has a lot of unread mail.
She’s not the only one with an overflowing inbox. I suspect millions of us neglect our email. You can hardly blame her or anyone else. If they have not judiciously unsubscribed from legitimate but unwanted emails and haven’t marked spam and junk to help train the filters, most of it isn’t worth looking at.
I’m an “inbox zero” person. Everything that comes in today gets dealt with today. I look at my Junk mail every day and delete it or move it if it isn’t junk.
Honestly, there isn’t much in my email that I care about. I suppose that is why my wife and millions upon millions of other folk are “Inbox — what inbox?” people. They may think, “If it’s really important, they’ll text me or call me or send me a letter.”
They may be right about that.
I don’t think my life would fall apart if I never read my email. Sure, there are messages there I like to read, notifications that could be helpful, little reminders of bills due, things like that. But the…
