I've always been bad at writing things down. Unlike most people, this isn't because I don't try or don't need to. I've actually got several old diaries floating about the internet, but I never managed to keep up with them on any kind of continuous basis. I imagine I'm like most people in this respect... Well, most people that try to write in their diaries anyways.
This one though, I'm expecting to be a bit different. When I've failed to update for extended periods before it tended to follow a certain pattern. Either nothing interesting would happen for an extended time and I'd get out of the habit of writing, or a huge quantity of interesting things would all happen at once and I'd persistently put off writing it all down because it seemed overwhelming. And of course I'd get more and more behind from this and feel more and more overwhelmed at the thought of catching up.
This diary will be a bit different. It exists as a way to focus myself and try to remember the last 15 months of my life, a period that has, by a long-shot, been the most important year (and some change) of the thirty four I've been alive.
I don't really have to 'keep up' with anything because the end is already written. Likewise I'm not going to have problems with a 'nothing's happened in so long, I've nothing to write about' because I can skip past all those periods.
The main problem I expect? My memory's going to come out of sequence. I'll remember Event A, write it down, then two days afterwards I'll remember something important that happened before event A. Perhaps it'll even inform me about Event A, giving me more context.
That's alright though. I can reorder things later as ultimately this exists to jog my memory.
So that's my manifesto for this diary. Part of that is to you the reader, but most of it is that I think better when I write. So now that I've written it down I've got a clear sense of what I'm trying to do. Haven't told you why yet though. For that you'll have to wait until the end.
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