My Dairy Cover (1965)The good habit I picked up at Bintulu Secondary School in 1965 was writing down the important things that happened to me in my little dairy book, faded and antique looking .
In today's sophisticated term we call it 'journal log' but in our childhood days it was just a little book that we held dearly for safekeeping and to be adressed only to ourselves.
Modern technology have changed all that. We are now able to upload our dairy or journal to the outside world. This is interesting because the focus is on 'others' or the outside world. But the motivation is even greater. It is the need to contribute your share of experiences to the bigger society, urgent and internationally.
It could be your friends' network, then merging into regional network and in a click, the whole wide world (www!)
Isn't all these the greatest motivational change impinging on our lives today ?
A Page of My Earliest Dairy of Bintulu - 1965
What you contribute early is knowledge even though you are unconcious of it at the moment of writing. Though you may be a primary school student, a beginner in life, by writing you contribute to the individual histories on the themes or topics that fascinate you, be it social, educational, literary, cultural, political, economical, intellectual, etc,. These individual histories when compiled become family histories, then local histories, and so on and so forth until it grows into national, regional and global histories.If our lives are not meant for others,we may end up living unspent lives.
Our lives will not matter to the world. Is that what we want of life?
1 comment:
Sir, i would like to thank you for your time for sharing the stories and histories of Bintulu, a place i hold close to my heart. Please tell us the stories of your childhood from your diaries and more so that we could have at least an idea of how it looks like during those days. i didn't even know Bintulu had a secondary school in the 1960s until i read your post. Take care and all the best.
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