When I started this blog 18.5 years ago, it was used as a true log or journal of my life. I slowly transitioned away from this for various reasons. The biggest reason is that a publically available record of your life can reveal things which may be useful to use against you in one way or another, by both people you know and people you don't know. Beyond that, the world is different today than it was in the early aughties. Another reason is that Facebook took over many of the duties of life-record without all the work of building my own content from scratch every time I wanted to post something. Facebook is still not good for long-form or detailed accounts of events. For that, blog remains the superior platform for recording my view of events in writing.
Even still, there is value in providing an online journal of one's life. For me, and most humans, memories fade. Specific memories are still noodling around in our heads, but they are buried underneath millions of other noodles. I didn't realize the importance of this until recently, when I was going over my blog's history.
Reading the past posts reminded me of events, and even just average days from my past. In fact, I ran across a couple of posts that describe things that I don't remember at all now, similar to how no-one remembers most of the first two years their life but there's those embarrassing baby photos that your parents pull out from time to time.
Posting about my life doesn't generate traffic like my posts about life in our Universe or beeper codes, but that's not the real point of this blog anyway. I'll still post about things I find interesting in the same manner as before. However, I'll try to post a bit more about my daily life too (more than just Instagram photos). I've actually started doing this since September this year. I hope to do it even more often.
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