If you're asking an old History teacher if you should toss (or let fade away) things that describe how someone in a particular time and place felt...? Guess at my answer. Everything everyone has to say is of equal value to the future. What you think would be more culturally significant that the memoirs of every president since you are an average person living with the effects of life, instead of in the ivory tower. Keep it somewhere! (I assume you're not of the ivory tower set)
I don't want to scare you off, but I've never enjoyed or valued history. The past got us to this moment, and it's this moment that is most important. It's this very instant that holds all the possibilities for future courses. If we spend the present examining the past, we're reliving history and missing the now.
Plus, everything has a time and a place. There may be some moments of my life that could inspire others or help them get through tough times, but the vast majority of my blogged moments have had their time, and to continue to keep them alive outside of their time seems wrong. If someone were to ask me if they could write about one day or era of my life, I'd tell them to mind their own business, to go live their own lives and leave mine to me.
I ain't scared! In any average archaeologist's life the most exciting moment is when the discover an ancient trash heap. Discarded food containers and the most mundane letters from family tell us more than decrees from the king. The guy that does excavations at Hadrian's Wall raves about the day he found a wood chip that has a PS on it to a soldiers... it said "we've sent you socks, leather and underwear".
:) That's good, because I can be quite an idiot when it comes to conversation and social interaction, and it does tend to send some folks running.
"we've sent you socks, leather and underwear".
That brought a smile to my face. I can see how that would be an exciting find, though it was thoroughly mundane in it's day.
In a similar vein, I suppose it would be fun if some day, many many many years from now, some archaeologist manages to pull data from some cached google back-up and they find my blogs. The fact that depression was a side effect of my allergy meds could create quite a stir in some historical circles. *L* But I can't imagine making an effort to preserve the information myself, not just on the off chance that it may prove valuable to someone some day. :)
not to drag stuff on too longjamezilla1September 15 2010, 19:16:27 UTC
but I usually do... ":) That's good, because I can be quite an idiot when it comes to conversation and social interaction, and it does tend to send some folks running." I think there's a lot of that... *CORRECTION* I think there's a lot of the fear of that going around. "That brought a smile to my face." Me=Glad "The fact that depression was a side effect of my allergy meds could create quite a stir in some historical circles." And there's a lot of that going around... someone in the future probably does need to have an inkling of just how much people are experiencing this now.
Guess at my answer.
Everything everyone has to say is of equal value to the future. What you think would be more culturally significant that the memoirs of every president since you are an average person living with the effects of life, instead of in the ivory tower.
Keep it somewhere!
(I assume you're not of the ivory tower set)
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Plus, everything has a time and a place. There may be some moments of my life that could inspire others or help them get through tough times, but the vast majority of my blogged moments have had their time, and to continue to keep them alive outside of their time seems wrong. If someone were to ask me if they could write about one day or era of my life, I'd tell them to mind their own business, to go live their own lives and leave mine to me.
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In any average archaeologist's life the most exciting moment is when the discover an ancient trash heap. Discarded food containers and the most mundane letters from family tell us more than decrees from the king. The guy that does excavations at Hadrian's Wall raves about the day he found a wood chip that has a PS on it to a soldiers... it said "we've sent you socks, leather and underwear".
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:) That's good, because I can be quite an idiot when it comes to conversation and social interaction, and it does tend to send some folks running.
"we've sent you socks, leather and underwear".
That brought a smile to my face. I can see how that would be an exciting find, though it was thoroughly mundane in it's day.
In a similar vein, I suppose it would be fun if some day, many many many years from now, some archaeologist manages to pull data from some cached google back-up and they find my blogs. The fact that depression was a side effect of my allergy meds could create quite a stir in some historical circles. *L* But I can't imagine making an effort to preserve the information myself, not just on the off chance that it may prove valuable to someone some day. :)
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":) That's good, because I can be quite an idiot when it comes to conversation and social interaction, and it does tend to send some folks running."
I think there's a lot of that... *CORRECTION* I think there's a lot of the fear of that going around.
"That brought a smile to my face."
Me=Glad
"The fact that depression was a side effect of my allergy meds could create quite a stir in some historical circles."
And there's a lot of that going around... someone in the future probably does need to have an inkling of just how much people are experiencing this now.
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