Time Capsule

[exquisitely_moi]

The Email Time Capsule is indeed pretty cool.
I must sit down after my exams and type out some meaningful stuff to send to myself a year later, or maybe five, or even twenty!
It would be pretty interesting for me, a few years later, to be visited

Comments

[greenlamb]

I don't know, I tried keeping a diary last time when I was in high school, found it a bit ridiculous to write to myself, and when I read things that i wrote like a few years ago, damn embarrassing lah. :P Haha maybe its just me.

But what would I wanna say to myself in the future? I would prefer it if it was the other way around XD Then I'll tell myself useful things like "NO! Don't leave your wallet there where you will forget it!" XD

But time capsule? I have this box at home, with several sentimental things. When I go back once in a blue moon and open it, it brings back memories :) I prefer such things, rather than words i guess.

Goodness this is almost like a blogpost.

[exquisitely_moi]

You do realise that a blog is basically just a more sophisticated form of keeping a diary - at least the way I do it! :P

So well, you still are writing a diary!

[pranav]

we do it :)

[exquisitely_moi]

But why? :P

[pranav]

The answer to your question is: because it's fun.
Here's how we evolved.

In our first year we happened to start spamming on our common accounts (for freshers). Those were amazing days which saw 800 mails by 5 people within a spam of 4 hours (3am to 7am). Naturally some of those mails were worth saving even in the age of restricted email spaces. Three years thence, they serve as the time capsules, something like what you're talking about.

I started keeping online journals and purported to keep them as private diaries but somewhere down the line the "fad" caught me ;) Anyway, have re-read both those mails (saved by myself, Amrita, Pritam etc) and the blogs (some public, others private). Recently I also started a mail account for the same purpose but got bored after contriving a dozen of capsules.

[exquisitely_moi]

Ah, that way! For that matter, I have tons of old mails back from four or five years ago which serve as time capsules too. But there's something distinctly different about sending a mail to one's future self with a very specific agenda of addressing that person directly and speaking to him or her.