After a conversation with a friend regarding the last time I had seem him, I realized how forgetful I am and the benefits of having blogged daily/memorable events in life. He had claimed we had last seen each other 3 years ago at a local restaurant (which no longer exists), and I had thought the last time we had seen each other was 3 years ago in Berkeley when he happened to be in town visiting. Apparently, the Berkeley encounter happened prior to the local encounter. Furthermore, apparently he even recalled that I had said I had never been to that particular local restaurant before. I, of course, have absolutely no recollection of the incident nor do I even remember the existence of the restaurant.

Well, enter the powers of the internet. He recalled that I had blogged about our lunch outing from 3 years ago and decided to Google it, simply searching his name with my blog username. Low and behold, I had indeed posted a blog entry about our lunch outing, in great detail, actually. There was the proof, posted on my old Blogspot blog.

This made me realize how much I’ve lost in terms of memories ever since I got lazy and tired of blogging detailed entries and posting photos. This also made me realize the power of blogging – revisiting old memories that had since been forgotten but are nonetheless interesting to reread and reminisce.

I’m a bit scared that I will forget a lot of things I have done or things that have happened during the period(s) of time that I had neglected blogging. Of course I remember certain events, but not on a well-detailed level. I’m sure I have forgotten a lot of “little” events, though, that would have been nice to read about in the future and remember.

With that said, I will try to be a better blogger, not necessarily for the reader but for myself and my own life documentation.