Little Memories
Kait here. I’ve been thinking a lot about college in the past few days. Bloggers, be glad you’re writing down as much of your day-to-day as you are. It fades. And it fades differently than childhood, which is so ingrained and formative. Some moments burn into your brain but others disappear with the passing years. I remember all the big moments - the ceremonious ones - but I can’t pull up little details. I can see a roommate cleaning dishes but I can’t hear her tell the story I know was so funny. I can’t remember what made her impression of our economics professor so pricelessly dead-on. I can see her eyes, and I know she’s laughing. I can hear her voice and I know something hilarious happened. But what? I wish I could remember just one thing.
I did keep a journal in college and I’m going to go back through and look at it. But I’m afraid I wrote down the wrong things - the important events instead of the little beautiful and ugly things that happened every day. You never know when you’re going to miss those. I wish I could write it all down, you know? Just in case.
This post inspires me to want to keep a really detailed blog when I go to college in the fall. :-P
I agree with Brandon. I mean, I already blog, but rarely about day-to-day things- I wish I’d done more of that in high school, so I’m definitely going to try to do it for college. just little anecdotes, instead of always only big milestones or venting about something.
in september i’ll be a senior in high school, but i think i will start recording a paper journal with focus on little things that i notice but don’t notice /enough/ to actually write down and preserve. why not?
can’t hurt!
thanks
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I’m glad for all of this. It’s so easy to use a journal to vent. And I think it’s important. It’s always helped me work through things that were bothering me. But it’s just as important to remember good, surprising moments that can so easily leave you. It’s strange because I think when something good that feels specific happens, you assume that you’ll always remember it. And sometimes you do, but then other times, there are just too many things to remember. I need to be better about this. Because it’s those things, when I look back at old jounrals, that I really relish.
Hi, I was randomly going through YouTube, and I came across the Phoebe Strole & Skylar Astin (I saw SA a few months ago) video of Anonymous Sex. I googled Tales From The Bad Years, and I was so amazed to find this. I just started university this June (school from where I’m from is June-March), and even if I’m still trying to figure out much of this site (and why I can’t open some links!), this is like a godsend. Serendipitous. I can’t wait to read (and comment on, haha) everything. Oh, and the original point of this whole comment was to say that finding this site has made me want to actively write in my journal to track of my freshman year; I know I’ll regret it if I don’t. Thanks!