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kateheffernan:

Tumblr Mosaic Viewer has just made it infinitely easier for me to explain why I have a tumblr.

I’m the type of person who worries about forgetting things. Not like, forgetting my keys (which I do a lot) but when I’m really happy, really sad, busy, crazy or in love - I worry I’ll forget that feeling. Even when nothing important at all is going on, I worry that down the road, in ten years or whatever, I won’t be able to remember what I was like and what my life was like. I have this feeling already about high school. I don’t remember why I made the decisions I did or what I really cared about and that really freaks me out.

This is super cheesy, I know.

I’m not really a writer (as you can see from this post) but I want to document things in a way that feels organic and that captures what I’m doing even if what I’m doing isn’t something monumental that feels worthy of documentation. I post stupid shit to my tumblr but that’s what makes it perfect for me. Because I post all this unimportant stuff, I can look back over a year ago to March 2009 and remember that I ate dinner at Whisk and Ladle with Andrew, Amir, Rosie and Sarah, that I had bangs, that Anna and I made a truly epic dinner, Andrew and I went skiing in Stowe, Julia got help from Andrew on her computer homework, that I was obsessed with Obama (hasn’t changed) and I, like many other women my age, was under misconception that 500 Days of Summer was going to be a good movie.

I don’t think I would have remembered that stuff if I hadn’t posted it. 

I can totally relate to this - it’s hard to remember who I was in high school, or even college and why I did or didn’t do certain things.  I love finding letters that I wrote back then or emails that I sent.  Tumblr creates a nice list of things I laughed at, read or random thoughts I had.