#Microblog Monday 574: Preservation and Destruction
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I’ve written here before that I think a lot about destroying my journals. I kind of don’t want to leave them behind when I’m gone, and you kind of don’t know when you’re going to be gone. Plus, I have a lot of journals.
But at the same time, I think about digitizing the journals to preserve them. What if the pencil in my childhood journals fades? What if the books are water-damaged?
I can’t really have it both ways — destroyed AND preserved. I need to pick one or the other.
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That’s a hard one. I often feel conflicted about Anne Frank and other diaries that are published regardless of their wishes for privacy (or we just will never know). I guess my blogs are almost like my journals/diaries. No Kidding in particular has touched on difficult times, but with the advantage of looking back, and working out how I got through them, rather than the very raw emotions at the time. Though I do hold back, knowing that my posts are public.
But I don’t think I want my journals (I don’t keep one regularly, but write occasionally) read or public. It’s one of the reasons I have had attempts at writing the story of my exchange student year – I don’t want anyone reading my diary, but I would like to make a record of that year in retrospect. Being honest, yet with the benefit of hindsight. If of course, anyone would be interested.