Bullshit or not, what I have done so far will be stored on my infinite yet unexplored memory inside my brain and later be played randomly by the future me. It is unnecessary to answer such question. And the old man starts to wonder why the hell did his past-self wrote such bullshit? The 50 year-old me is probably recalling the memory of 23 year-old me writing this on June 5th 2017 after a month of break from my personal blog. We constantly do that, don’t we? Wondering the future while also watching the past through our memory. When I think further, it is funny to know that the 10-years-from-now-me will probably do the same: thinking of the teenage-me while wondering what will probably happen with myself in 20 years from now. While writing this, I am thinking of my childhood while at the same time wondering what will happen to me in ten years. Humans wonder what their future will be while their future-selves are watching their present and their past. Thus, start reading to explore multiple dimensions, and start writing to be immortal.Ĭheers, happy International Literacy day. The last word I’ve wrote on the previous sentence will not exist if our ancestors didn’t come up with the idea of recording information in the format of writing, or should we call it drawing since it is highly illustrative back then? And also, writing itself will be meaningless should nobody reads and attempted to travel the time and explore the multiple dimensions by reading what have been written. Time machine might and would never been invented but there is at least simple way to travel the time: read.įrom what Harari explains in his book, that I still recommend you to read, and what my thought has just whispered to me about time travelling through reading and writing, we can comprehend the importance of writing as well as reading. The more you write, the more you allow people to explore the world, the time and you yourself which makes them remember you and experience what you have experienced during your time. As a linear consequence to that, the writer, of any form of writing, will be remembered. The other significance of putting down information in written form is that opening chance to passed the knowledge or information through different generations. By doing so, they could record and list out information and more than that, they helped themselves in more activities such as trading in where they could use the symbolic writing to represent the type of item and the amount they desired to trade. Thus, putting it down in a stone tablet in the form of symbols was what our ancestors did far before the alphabets and other form of written coding existed. It has a limited span in where more information will be forgotten should they are not recorded. Similar to that, our short term memory was not created to remember every single input entering our brain. You will drop and spoil so many things unless you bring something you can use to aid you handling the whole things. If I may put an analogy to it, you simply cannot hold your shopping items for a whole month with your bare-hands. However, it is also obvious to most of us, realize it or don’t, that the processing memory is very limited in the sense of capturing and holding the storm of information and knowledge.
Some of you must be familiar with the concept of short-term and long-term memory, or in more technical terms, short-term memory is also known as processing memory in where the information is being processed before finally filtered and stored in the long-term memory. Harari briefly explains the logical scientific reasons behind the idea of recording information in the form of writing. If you, by any chance, have done such contemplation and still, up to now, think of reasons behind the creation of written form of communication with its various symbols, then you probably need to read the book I have shown above this write-up. One more question: Which one came first? reading, or writing? Have you ever wondered why humans came up with the idea of inventing symbolic coding to communicate in written form until finally languages we have been familiar with now were born out of it? How was it before our ancestors figure out the concept of words, or even further, letters?
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