Electronic Diaries are Diaries Still

When i was a teenager I attempted to keep a diary like many young girls do. I always sucked at it. I would sit there fully focused before bed and determined to solidify my life in my own personal history book. As the pen would descend on the blank pages ready to be brilliant it would scribble what ever popped to mind which typically was not very much. In the end what would be on the page would be really rather mundane. Long story short, many pages of what i ate for lunch that day and who i had a crush on at that moment. BORING.

I once learned the definition of insanity was doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.

My trying to keep a diary, as a kid and as an adult, is the very definition of insanity. I would go months and sometimes years without writing and then when i finally felt the urge i had this overwhelming sense of obligation to catch my blank diary up on all the important events in my life since the last time i wrote. This exercise would be so exhausting that i would finish and say damn ok i cant go that long again but what a pain and so more months or years would pass before I wrote again.

What you may ask is the point of this one am rambling? Well as you can see well over a year ago i started this blog with every intention to write regularly like i had every intention of journaling in a diary all those failed attempts. As you can see by the scarcity of posts, that also has not come to furition.

The thing that prompted this post is me having another one of those ah-ha moments. Life is short and somedays i feel just how short and how precious life is and so i get rather introspective. Today was one such day. I realized as i sat there watching Harry Potter number one, that unlike Harry, I know where I come from and from who. I have some very amazing and interesting characters in my life, myself being one. I have done some really amazing things in my life that someday maybe someone would like to know about so instead of a journal i have decided that when i remember a story i will write it down for posterity sake and for my own cause with each passing day my memory gets more and more hazy.