Day One--Gone

I updated my MacBook Air to Lion the other day.  I wanted to update my virus software and upgrading was the only way to protect my Mac. 

Today, I discovered that when I opened Day One, a journaling tool, that all of my entries for the past year and a half are gone.  It either happened when I upgraded to Lion or when I updated Day One (and a number of other apps) after upgrading to Lion.  Either way, it shouldn’t have happened.

I don’t take photos like other people do.  I record what’s going on in my life through the feelings that I express through my writing.  Some of that, like this blog post, go live to share.

Others, I keep to myself.  And that’s what I trusted Day One to do for me:  to keep my thoughts and expressions as a journal that lived on my MacBook Air.  But they’re all gone.  Vaporized. 

Day to day recordings of what I was feeling, how I interacted with people, what I was concerned about, how things worked out. All gone.  My only diary for the last year and half. Gone.

I know other people have suffered much greater losses, many are experiencing them right now.  This is just a little thing in the grand scheme of things.  But it doesn’t mean that it’s nothing.

It’s a loss.  A small one.  But a loss nonetheless.