growing up

tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2452633467900214499.post-81733807016425644672008-03-20T23:25:00.004-04:002008-03-24T16:59:42.732-04:00growing upSometimes when I think about the past, to when I was in elementary school and high school, I wonder how much I have matured during these years. When you contemplate on your own past, you can't really tell, until you've read your own past blog posts. I've been procrastinating like crazy recently seeing as finals are coming up and I've been reading other people's old blogs. It's pretty interesting to read how these people were like when they were young, before I met them. Everyone's story is so different, everyone writes about different things, on their xanga, their aa, on their blogspot. I was just reading my own blog and this is what I found: <blockquote>so i guess, now we have a unpaid book in our house, and well you gotta take advantage of it. it's a book with 4 novels in it. one of them was called P.S. I love you, by the 22-year-old daughter of the prime minister of ireland.. and that caught my eye. so i read it. it's the sweetest book ever. about how this woman's husbands dies and how she copes and how he helps her cope by writing her little msgs in an envelope for her to open every month. it is so cute! he makes her go karoake, buy a new outfit, get a new job and he even prebooks/buys a vacation to spain for her and her best friends! it's sooo adorable! i give it 2 thumbs up!</blockquote>HAHA. Who knew I've read the book before, I definitely still have no recollection of what really happens in the story since I haven't watched the movie yet, but I find this pretty funny. Ladies and gentlemen, THIS is why you blog. You think your memory is good, but in reality, it's the little things you forget. Everyone can remember the big things that happen to them, but the little things, the little things that shape your thinking, the little things that change your view on the world, the little things that make you who you are. Those are the things that we often forget and store in our long term memory, only to be retrieved at random. When we think of blogs and journals, we sometimes think of it as a waste of time and energy. I mean, we could be doing better things out there than to write about the daily happenings in our life. This is true. But actually, its those who DO write aimlessly about everything, interesting or not, who have the best memories. When they are bored, they can go back and look at all the stupid things they've written and reminisce in full picture and colour. When you look back, your memories at the back of brain will be triggered and you'll be able to remember all the little things that made/ruined your day and remember exactly how it all felt. You'll remember exactly how you felt when a stupid boy in your class slammed the back of your chair down and made you fall to floor dragging your desk on top of you. You'll remember the time when you first fell in love with a boy and then realize how retarded you both were :). You'll remember the time when you got a free drink from your French teacher at the bar because you bravely walked around the chalet with 2 loofas in your shirt. ;) I guess this also goes for MSN/ICQ chat logs, really. I know some of you don't save your history, but it's HILARIOUS when you go back to the good ol' days and read some of them. You'll note the way u tlk hehe n wUt rAnDOm tiNGs u cAN cuM uP w/ 2 tlk abt w/ other ppl....hehe sooo j/ks j/ks. So really, there was no point to this post. It was just something I noticed while reading old blogs. We've all grown so much and we're going to grow even more. But even as we get older, we shouldn't ever forget the little things, the little joys and pains in our lives that have made us who we are today. So people, get BLOGGIN'! ... or get journallin', just do something to put your memories into a hard copy. (If you vlog, PLEASE don't post it up on youtube. That's stupid. haha)vcknoreply@blogger.com