Memories & Timelines
I'm currently down this rabbit hole of reading old posts from 25 years ago.
I'm going through and saving them as well, it's a slow process but I feel lucky being able to do this.
It's so weird reading some of the shit I was writing. Back then for me at least and a lot other people it was a diary about your day. You wrote what happened. Who you interacted with and other such stuff.
It’s fascinating having a clearer picture of when things happened in my past.
There’s a mixture of things that overlapped that I never realised, there’s people mentioned I haven’t thought about in years, while the flip side of that is people I’ve thought about every single day since then.
A lot of the things I wrote about I do remember.
A couple of things I have no idea what I am going on about, who the person is that’s involved or what the actual situation is.
I do not know who “The Living Dead Girl” is, why I talked about her so much, where she was from or what actually happened.
I remember an old work supervisor I had, while I remember a lot of the work based content happening, I have no recollection of ever going to his place for dinner and eating some sort of fish. Maybe it wasn’t a good meal?
I’m finding it fascinating.
Both in what I wrote and thought was worthy to be mentioned (hint:!it was everything) and just how my memory remembers things.
Thinking about all of this I guess my comments would be, make boring day notes occasionally, you’ll appreciate them in 20+ years.
I’ve also gone through and saved someone else’s writing, someone important to me many years ago. The only thing that’s annoying is they never used dates when they posted. It was always just a day.
No way of tying their words to points in time.
That’s OK, the words still mean more than they will ever know.