Reverse blogging

It's August 1st and the whole month of July is without an entry, and the month of June is sporadic at best. What a shame. I can blame it all on work, but I'd be lying. It seems that each day I postpone writing, the more difficult it is to pick up the next day...and the next...and next. Events that happen today are vivid and strong, and I can account in accurate details. But as days pass, memory fades. Add to the confusion events accumulated overtime, to the point where I don't even know where to begin.

Blogs are of no help because it's based on chronology. What I post today will take precedence over what was written yesterday. If nothing was said yesterday, or for a month, then it recedes to the time of the last entry, as if days in between now and then never occurred. But interesting events did occur, only not yet written. If I go back to write about them now, it will disregard the schematic of blogs and might confuse the reader.

Thus, I'm in a hole I dug, deeper and deeper each day. Then I come across a blog with a quote from an expert journal keeper: "Just rewind your memories. Starting from today, and then back to yesterday, the day before and so on. If you try just to jump here and there following random memories, you'll get lost."

How pertinent is the advice to my situation. So what if the dates of a journal is out of order, just flip a few pages, and not a word is missed. That compared to an orderly journal with significant dates missing, lost forever. While I've been worrying about how a blog should work, I forgot why I started it in the first place, for the sake of keeping a record. The goal was to keep a record of events, not when it was recorded. A month or a year from now, readers won't care when I wrote it, just my ability to recount what was important to me on that particular day. With my priority re-shifted, I'm ready to go back in time to recapture what was to be forgotten, starting from yesterday.

Filed Sun - August 1, 2004, 01:41 AM in

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