With 2016 being my "Now" year, I've started posting to facebook a daily 'reminder' - mostly a reminder of what was good about the day; something that stood out or I was specifically thankful for. I didn't necessarily intend for it to be a daily post (and I still am not calling it that since that automatically puts pressure on my finding something - ANYTHING - today that will fit the criteria!), but it turns out that at least once a day, I really do have something that strikes me as 'special' about that given 24 hour period.
In reflecting about this, I thought back to my childhood and the never-finished journals and diaries I would start and then put down again. I also thought about what I actually remember from my childhood. I don't remember the day-to-day of life - I have snippets of very specific memories like the choir girls singing "Mandy" in the girls' locker room at PE - but for the most part, all the days blur into a year's memory or an overall experience memory, with it's general white-washed feeling: "That was Jr. High. I hated Jr. High."
Now we have this sort of memory repository (facebook, which is so easily accessible while I'm working on my computer or phone while commuting, and is just UBIQUITOUS). I figured, why not try to create a memory 'reminder' for each day. Not necessarily a play-by-play of events that happened, but more my feelings that were induced by whatever might be happening on a given day. And, conveniently, if I ever do want to go back and elaborate on those feelings, I have my starting point, right there on my facebook wall.
Like January 3rd - I posted the Kongos song: It's a Good Life
Was I having a hectic day on 1/3/16? Not sure. Not important. For the 3-odd minutes that I was listening to that song and posting it to facebook, I was happy.
That's what I'll choose to remember.