Hello, world!
Do you ever look back on your life and realize that truly you can only get a small glimpse of who you were, that somehow along the way you have become the summation of multiple people, various chapters blending and blurring?
I do.
Then again, somehow along the way, we maintain a central core, a solid medium to which we always return – constancy despite consistency.
STORY TIME:
Back in the Summer of 2010, I took a trip to Hawaii with my family. We stayed there for eleven days. And, yes, I recorded each and every individual day in blog form. I also took photos. And I took several videos with my Flipshare video camera, eventually compiling them into a single document to gift to my siblings.
Funny enough, like most things in my life, the files were destroyed before I could burn them to a disk.
Why were they destroyed?
While I was in college, I broke my laptop screen (for the third time) and took my Mac to a store for reparation. When I had the screen replaced, I did not back any of my files up, despite the guy in the blue polo having asked me to do so. Thus, the tangible memories were deleted.
The potential lesson to be learned: Live in each moment, but make sure to mark the good ones – and sometimes even the bad ones.
FLASH FORWARD:
Fortunately, I did keep the stories. And for the next few blog entries, I will be recalling the days when I went to Hawaii.
[Until then, a quick summary of the Time Capsule: Justin of 2010 loved Doctor Who, Glee, traveling libraries, Pokemon, and staying up late to write.]
Please enjoy this quote from Doctor Who, an alien who sums up the coming-off and putting-on of masks and centrality of character:
“Come on, then. Take mine. Take my memories. But I hope you’ve got a big appetite because I’ve lived a long life and I’ve seen a few things. I walked away from the Last Great Time War. I marked the passing of the Time Lords. I saw the birth of the universe and I watched as time ran out, moment by moment, until nothing remained. No time. No space. Just me. I walked in universes where the laws of physics were devised by the mind of a madman. I’ve watched universes freeze and creations burn. I have seen things you wouldn’t believe. I have lost things you will never understand. And I know things, secrets that must never be told and knowledge that must never be spoken. Knowledge that will make parasite gods blaze. So come on then! Take it! Take it all, baby! Have it! You have it all!”
Just A Journey 