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The ultimate blog posting?

06.26.04 (6:24 pm) [edit]

I heard a story the other day which really got me thinking. I can’t remember exact details but it went something like this:

Forty five years ago a fifteen year old girl was on holiday with her parents somewhere on the English south coast. It was a wet day and because the girl (an only child) was unable to go out she was thinking up things to do to occupy herself. She decided to write herself a letter, to be posted to her home address but not to be opened till she was sixty years old.

I was listening to this woman on the radio, it was her sixtieth birthday and she was going to open and read the letter. She claimed not to remember its contents. It started with something like, “Happy Birthday on this your sixtieth year. I wonder if you’ll remember me, I’m the girl you used to be. How does it feel to be sixty? Silly question, of course you can’t tell me because we can never meet or talk to each other.”It sent a chill down my spine. The woman reading the letter just laughed and said, “oh how precocious” but the style of writing made me feel icy cold. She went on to ask lots of questions, ”I wonder if you ever married…? Did you find love…? Are your parents still alive…?”

I don’t know if it was the detachment in the style of writing which made me feel so uneasy or the thought of bumping into yourself in another time. I know I wouldn’t like to *meet* the fifteen year old Andaloo now, and I can’t help but wonder if I’m comfortable enough with myself now to want to *meet* myself again at sixty?
It also got me thinking about blogging. Why do we do it? Are we writing to ourselves so that we can read it years later? It hadn’t occurred to me that there was a later in the land of blog. I just write this stuff and let it float around in the ether. I wonder if I’ll bump into it again?

posted by: aWindow (reply)
post date: 06.26.04 (2:58 pm)

I started writing a so called blog about 3 years ago, i made myself my own website and started writing, (i wonder what happened to good old pen and paper).
I went through a very bumpy first 2 years and by year 3 i was used to all the bumps, but, i made a note of every bump, every emotion.
I know its only 3 years later but that website has now become a nickelodeon for me, i see my past, in fact, i remember every single keyboard stroke and when i read them i can see a path that i have travelled to get where i am now... once the path is somewhat clearer, then you can with a degree of accuracy, predict when it is going also.
the saddest moments of me reading those "blogs" is when i can still identify with the person i was then, and i start wondering, why have i not grown during this time.

You write beautifully, thank you

posted by: lynne (reply)
post date: 06.26.04 (4:47 pm)

I have kept a journal of some sort or another since I was around 10 years old. It really helps me sometimes to go back and read what I wrote. Sometimes I cant believe how stupid I was about some things. Sometimes I notice things about myself of the past that I didnt notice at the time. That is weird. It is like I know that person better now than I knew that person when I *was* that person.

I dont know. I just know that keep a diary/journal has been good for me. And that is what matters, isnt it?

posted by: librarianguish (reply)
post date: 06.27.04 (8:54 am)

I guess I blog because I want to write, and at this point in my life it's easier to do it on the computer than on paper (I don't know why though). I occassionally go back and read blog posts, usually if I'm looking for something specific. I think it would be easier to find things in a real journal though! I don't remember what day I wrote something on!!!

The other aspect I like about blogging is the interaction with people. For me it's become a kind of social activity as well as a record of what I'm up to. I enjoy the banter back and forth, and just seeing what people around the world are up to!

I certainly like to read yours!

p.s. You should sign my guest map - Europe is looking a little bare ;)