This is my first post of the new year.

When I look back on the past few months, it just appears as a blur. I guess the more busy one’s life becomes, the harder it is to remember with any clarity the days gone by. Except the truly exceptional days.

This is where a blog or a journal is of great help. It allows us to record fleeting thoughts, little victories and small joys that would otherwise be lost forever in the past.

e.g. I used to keep an offline blog (installed WordPress on my PC using xampp; will talk about how to do that some other time). Actually, I still keep it – have just stopped posting to it.

I did that to write regularly and to write with more freedom because they were private posts. And I’m glad for whatever few posts I wrote on that blog because now when I go back and read some of those posts, I get so many memories come flooding back. It’s almost like I’ve stepped back in time and can almost touch the me who had written those words so many months back.

A journal is generally used by people to chronicle their growth and to record thoughts and observations that occur unbidden at various times. I believe such a record also makes us more alive – because we are in touch with ourselves over a period of time.

And that is one reason I must write more often in this blog. If not in this blog, at least in my private blog or journal. Not to please anyone else but to make myself more alive.

And to create a legacy of thoughts and recorded deeds that will keep me alive for a long time – even after I am long gone from this world.

Here’s to preserving memories and to a time travel of a different sort!