Musings

I don’t know how many of you wander over to the forum area. It’s a nice place to hang out on lonely days sometimes.

Anyhow, during a discussion over there, one diarist at DD complained that the name she wanted was taken by someone who only ever made a couple of entries to their diary and then vanished. She wanted to know if the Admins were ever going to get rid of the “dead wood diaries” and release those names to people who wanted to use them. The answer was “no” – no diary would be deleted simply due to inactivity, and no name would ever be reused.

What grabbed my attention though was the reason given for this. Matt and Steve see this site as a sort of written time capsule. The daily events, musings, frustrations, achievements, sorrows and joys of our lives were to be preserved here for future generations to read.

I did not expect that answer, but I like it. I like the further purpose to which my experiences will be put to. I like the fact that I can serve as a sort of ambassador from my time to people yet to come.

But now, in the face of my current “crisis”, I have to wonder what future generations might make of my problems. Will they consider it ghoulish for me to be on a transplant list? Will developments in medicine eventually obviate the need for human to human transplants? Will they even be able to put themselves in my shoes, or will this for them be as the amputations and tooth extractions without benefit of anesthesia of the ninteenth century are to me: barbaric and totally incomprehensible in the face of modern advancements.

I add my contribution to the time capsule, unsure how it will be received should it ever be uncovered by future eyes.