you won't know
when would be a good time to pen down your life events?
immediately after they happen, when memories are still fresh, wounds still bleeding, smiles still etched on your face?
would it be better after a few years, when you have the benefit of the objectivity that time and experience provide?
or is it best done in your later years, writing the story of your life and knowing the roles these events played in it?
i ask this because recently i was 'inspired' to put some of my own life events into writing, more for my own record-keeping purposes than anything else, really, as i do notice that i am forgetting bits and pieces at some regularity and i wonder when will the true happening of these events be completely warped in my memories.
aside from the timing issue, i faced another obstruction: the idea of my stories and feelings having a physical (or digital) form made me uncomfortable.
firstly because i don't want there to be any chance for them to be seen, and secondly because it feels like if i wrote them down, these stories would be set in stone. it may or may not be the most accurate recollection, but THIS will forever be the way it happened.
immediately after they happen, when memories are still fresh, wounds still bleeding, smiles still etched on your face?
would it be better after a few years, when you have the benefit of the objectivity that time and experience provide?
or is it best done in your later years, writing the story of your life and knowing the roles these events played in it?
i ask this because recently i was 'inspired' to put some of my own life events into writing, more for my own record-keeping purposes than anything else, really, as i do notice that i am forgetting bits and pieces at some regularity and i wonder when will the true happening of these events be completely warped in my memories.
aside from the timing issue, i faced another obstruction: the idea of my stories and feelings having a physical (or digital) form made me uncomfortable.
firstly because i don't want there to be any chance for them to be seen, and secondly because it feels like if i wrote them down, these stories would be set in stone. it may or may not be the most accurate recollection, but THIS will forever be the way it happened.
4 Comments:
Keep writing. I love to stalk on your blog :)) xoxo
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Yanti Adoe, at November 17, 2013 9:06 am
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Yanti Adoe, at November 17, 2013 9:07 am
i know that feeling bro. and because of all these hesitations, the blog becomes stagnant for long periods of time without updates.
i read on tumblr yesterday:
"when in doubt, save as draft." - someone
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dqb, at November 17, 2013 1:00 pm
yanti: thanks, you're from jkt? i was there earlier this month.
dqb: yes i tried saving some in incomplete form but always unable to pick up from where i left it.
each post is written when its own unique feeling comes, and when it's gone, impossible to carry on.
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cromber, at November 22, 2013 3:07 am
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