SpikeL

I'm back for entry number two. It's been so long since I've been on tabulas (that is...since before my last post). And I must say it's matured quite a bit. I don't even know how I ended up here on tabulas but it's quite refreshing to be back. It's quite awesome to see friends I've befriended way before the days of twitter and facebook are still chronicling their lives here.

Roy if you're reading this (and I know you are since I'm going to leave you a comment on your tabulas right after I finish this entry), great job sir. Tabulas has come a long way.

The reason why I'm even writting at 2AM in the morning is because I stopped by roy's tabulas and started reading about his life. It's been a great read. Seeing his thoughts, his current challenges and of course his photos. I came to his entry about personal journaling as being dead and something resonated with me.

For me I think it's because of the hypes of blogs. Back before blogs existed I used to spend hours hacking away in photoshop, then spending countless more hours in Dreamweaver, just to create a personal space where I can share my thoughts and my happenings to my friends. But blogging and other social mediums have sort of taken that away. I've tried numerous times to start a blog and keep up with it but for some reason I just never saw motivation to keep up with it.

Perhaps it's because I feel the need to go out and make connections with others when instead there are places like tabulas where a community of people exist and can share their lives. To optimize my site so that I can rank well on google so that I can get hits on it. To rehash the things I have to say because is it relevant to an audience across many spectrums in life. To make things pretty because a blog isn't just a blog anymore it's a journal, it's a photo album, it's a portfolio, it's a resume....it's a lot of things. To tell you the truth most of the time I simply feel I don't have anything interesting to blog about.

I sit here looking at the tabulas logo in the top left corner and I just have to nod and agree with the slogan. Chronicle your life. Not just in 140-character updates but with some meat and thought. I don't want to know where you are 24/7 but, I want to know how you're doing, what you're going through and how life is treating you.

One of the great things I love about photography is it's a great way to document life. I love going to my parents house and whipping out my old baby albums and just flipping through the pages and watching life just unfold before me. But when I get to the end I get sad because it abruptly stops and I know there's so much that has gone on. I wish I had a little reminance of it to hold onto. Hahaha I guess it's a bit hypocritical of me to be saying this because I've deleted all my previous entries and just downloaded everything as a backup on my harddrive. But I look at the abrupt stop of entries I had with the most recent being in 2007 and I wonder what sort of things I could've talked about and simply shared. Would I have gone back today and nodded at the progression of my life or would I see a need to stop and take time to rethink the trajectory of my life?

It's funny because a lot of my old entries I remember ended like this. Well I've said a lot so I'm going to end it here now. It's true I have and I'm tired but as I close this entry out I leave with a sense of joy. It felt good to just write and chronicle this moment. I started off this year feeling it's going to be an awesome year and I want to chronicle it. No..not just chronicle it. I want to tabulas it.

Goodnight.