karniv0re's Journal: Archiving My Life

2014 was a trip down nostalgia lane. I dug through my past and started documenting. But this year I have only gotten more serious about it. As I dig through old emails, paper documents, school work - anything, I am distraught by how much is gone forever. There are events in my life that will only live in my head. But for how long? Now is the time to document everything that has happened in my life. The further away I get from it, the harder it gets to find and remember. But once it's recorded, I'll have it forever.

I'm basically putting everything on my Google Calendar, and keeping documents in my Google Drive. The calendar is the easiest way I can look back at what I've done. What am I documenting? Anything remotely significant. Seeing a certain band, or visiting another city. Making out with this girl or that. Anything that isn't mundane. To be fair, this entire project is extremely mundane, and I'm not really living while I'm doing it. But I see it as a small sacrifice in order to preserve the past.

Slashdot journals have been extremely helpful as well - indeed, they have their own calendar. I even copy the contents of the journal and past them into the calendar description field. So much is coming back to me just from putting everything on a calendar. It's like the picture continues to get clearer, and I am transported back to that time. Anyway, I need to keep going. Back to it!