Lest You Forget

What tools people use to preserve personal memories? Off hand I can think of the following:

• Photographs
• Personal writings (for example, journal, blogs, e-mails, letters, etc)
• Mementos

They also use scrapbooks in the West.
Am I missing out something?

You know the question about what you would grab if you could if your house went on fire? What do you normally answer? I think that one of the things that I have always held dear is my collection of photographs.

- From a blog

One of the reasons why people hold on to memories so tight is because memories are the only thing that don't change when everyone else does.

- Anonymous

When does an 'event' become a 'memory'?

When does 'memory' become 'trivia'?

I agree and hope there are a lot of memories that are not trivia! I am more perturbed by those memories that should not be 'trivia' but end up becoming so...

- From another blog

What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.

- Gabriel García Márquez

Separated in Childhood

I am so excited at finding two long-lost friends – Pravir Chand and Sanjay Dokania – on the Internet (even while not being able to find several others). I haven’t seen them for years...er, decades. Pravir was my classmate and closest friend in primary school – Shishu Niketan. I knew that he studied engineering at BIT Sindri, but had no clue about his whereabouts afterward.

Sanjay Dokania was my junior in Patna. He went to IIT Mumbai from there. I lost track of him after that.

I am excited to find them also because they have hardly any footprints on the Internet. Google could find just one page each carrying their names. They have obviously played no role in creating these pages, and most probably are not even aware of these pages. The solitary link for Sanjay is in fact broken; I could view it thanks to Google’s cache. :)