I can remember opening my first email account

Such a novelty to receive an email in those days

I was only getting a couple every week back then

Fast forward to today with hundreds per week

They come so fast I turned off the bell notification

I no longer respond to emails in real time

I scroll through them every few days

Only opening the ones I deem possibly important

The rest remain unopened and ignored

They probably contain viruses anyway

Every few months I cull the unopened ones

Mass deletions with no mercy

If its old and ignored it gets wiped out

I hardly ever look in my junk email folder

Except when somebody tells me they sent an important email

One that never appeared in my regular email

My junk email folder started to get massive

Literally thousands of unopened emails

I learned how to set rules for it

Now it purges everything more than a month old

Anything more than a year old is deleted from my regular inbox

The important ones  go into folders to keep

I am no longer a slave to my emails

If you need to reach me urgently

Please call or text

Emails are no longer a priority for me