I believe that the brain works like a computer.

Memories organised neatly into folders. Some a little more accessible, right in the desktop. Some harder to find, deep beneath layers of folders. Opening one memory after another would lead to that particularly well stored and hidden memory.

Every folder could represent an entity. A place. A moment. A person.

Scratch that.

Every folder a person. Every moment a folder within that. Sorted according to last viewed. Everyone likes to go back to certain memories again and again,  pushing those to the top of the stack.

Again these people are sorted by the most recent activity. People with whom the memories are constantly updated remain at the top, while those with minimal contact get pushed to the bottom.

Over time, the number of folders start building up. More people, more memories, more folders.

The system starts to slow down, too many folders in the memory.

Everyday applications and programs get slowed down, sometimes even crash.

So for the sake of the system’s functionality, you delete some folders. Starting off with the smaller folders. Deleting them makes the system run a little more smoother, but over time it starts to slow down again. And then you go back to some of those larger folders, with more memories. Those are the ones truly slowing down the system.

You look through the files once more. Damn that’s a lot of files. You never even knew some of these existed in your computer. It’s been a while since you looked at this folder. Sure had a lot of memories with this person. But right now the folder is just slowing down your system passively.

So you delete it.

And the system runs a lot better. Much faster. Much more efficient.

But you know it’s only a matter of time before you have to perform a disk cleanup again.

On that rather depressing note, keep glitching (: