Posted by Hannah
on 12/1/2009, 9:20:52
I'd say, for me, it's imperative to have a few stories backed up. Or else my mind selectively edits them until they're complete falsehoods that paint me in a very cheery light. I need the reassurance that comes with knowing things were set down in stone very soon after the fact, and so they're probably accurate.
But more than that, I feel like my life is richer when I write it down. I know lots of people feel the opposite - that they're wasting time by writing down life instead of living it, and if they could just stop thinking about how their lives would look on paper, they'd be a whole lot happier. That viewpoint even makes more sense to me, empirically. But it's not what works in reality. I'm prone to sliding through life without really paying attention unless I take an active role in interpreting it through words.
How about you? Which viewpoint do you take?
I'm about to do an experiment on memory on my own blog. My boyfriend and I overheard this not-so-hilarious-but-still-unbelievable conversation in the deli on Saturday night, and I meant to write it down when we got home but I got distracted. I'm going to write it as best I can remember in my blog today, but my memory won't be good enough for exact dialogue, and I can almost guarantee that there will be pretty much no relation between the words that I use and the words that they used. And I can also almost guarantee that Dan is going to comment and correct my dialogue, because his memory is better for things like that. Then everyone will be able to see the disparity, and I will be publicly humiliated because the three people in the world who read that blog will know that I am a fraud, and my stories are irreparably tainted and hold no value and so forth.
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