email id is your unique identification

Everything in the world of internet revolves around your email-id. Its a unique identification for you, a passport. Want to enter a site, want to view some details, want to make some friends, just enter your email id and you are through. I don't even remember a lot of sites where I have registered my email-id. Well, thats a different thing altogether, but the point is - the email id opens your door to many things on the internet.

I took my email-id lightly, especially when I created it, in 2003 after I got an invite to open a gmail account. Well, the email-service has been phenomenal since then and so has been its usage. But, more importantly its importance has grown over time. A lot can be attributed to how good it has been.I wonder if this has been as lousy as xxdiff-mail or yahxx-mail would I be still using it ? Well, again, that's a different issue altogether.

I now have more than 10 Gigs of data in my gmail account, discounting pics uploaded to picasa, and files uploaded to google docs. I even have bought 25 Gigs of extra space from google in case I run short of memory (which I already have because of the huge volumes of pics I have, thanks to my DSLR). My email id manages everything for me in my life. It holds all the information I need and keeps me updated with latest information via digest mails, email subscriptions and numerous other such emails.

Talking about importance, it now has a very important role in my life. It is the same id with which I am registered to GMAC, who manage my GMAT score. Its the same id with which I have applied to a lot of b-schools to whom I applied, and its the 'official' id for communication with the b-school I am going to join. Its the same email id with which I manage my mutual funds portfolio, and also my social presence via twitter,facebook and ning.  I didn't realize when did this personal/un-official email id of mine became official for many purposes.

And I hate to admit but its difficult to part away with this id now. No day passes by when I don't check my mails. When I do not have a computer, I am busy on my mobile, and I hate it when I do not get a network to connect to gmail. Its addictive, and why not, its part of me now.It uniquely identifies me .

My email is me is my email.