Comments on: Abierto… Cerrado! Abierto… Cerrado! https://jonathanfield.com/blog/2006/11/abierto-cerrado-abierto-cerrado/ Tue, 29 May 2018 20:14:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.13 By: jon_a_thon https://jonathanfield.com/blog/2006/11/abierto-cerrado-abierto-cerrado/#comment-339 Fri, 05 Jan 2007 08:02:56 +0000 http://jonathanfield.com/blog/?p=80#comment-339 Oh oh… I did want to reply (a month later). I agree about going back and reading journal entries. I was exaggerating about waiting until the afterlife. I scan back over my entries pretty regularly, and yeah, it reminds me where I’m going and where I’ve been.

It’s kind of scary how if I don’t have some written record I easily lose greater than 90% of my life to mystery and forgetfulness!

]]> By: egw https://jonathanfield.com/blog/2006/11/abierto-cerrado-abierto-cerrado/#comment-295 Wed, 22 Nov 2006 03:35:13 +0000 http://jonathanfield.com/blog/?p=80#comment-295 So I’ve been doing this journaling thing for a little while now (both on and offline), and I have to say one of the real joys for me is going back and re-reading the things I wrote a year or two ago. I find the entries before that are a little more remote, and I’m not so interested in reading them day-to-day (although I’ll sit down and do it from time to time.) But it doesn’t take more than ten or fifteen minutes a day to check the entries from the last two years, and it helps give me some perspective on my life. What was I doing then versus what am I doing now. What was I thinking then versus what am I thinking now. Where was I going then versus where am I going now. Etc.

Of course different things work for different people, so just because something works for me, I wouldn’t necessarily expect it to work for you. Still, I encourage you to try to read what you wrote some time before your afterlife. I think it’ll be both fun and worth the time and effort.

For example, on November 21st last year I went to see the latest Harry Potter movie (which I didn’t like), ate lunch at Tanpopo (which I did) and was mad at myself for over-answering a casual email (which I still do, no doubt, but hopefully not so often.) If I didn’t have my journal to refer back to, I wouldn’t have remembered any of this!

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