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The title is the mirror image of "Diary", though not exactly, but the reason I spelt it reverse will be clear soon. This post is for those of you who maintain a diary, others can also go through it but it'll be a little dull for them. Many of us maintain a diary in some form or the other which means "a daily record, usually private, esp. of the writer's own experiences, observations, feelings, attitudes, etc". Some do the chronicling in hardbound executive diaries while others may opt for a more casual notebook kind of approach. But its really not the package but the content in it that really matters. Now I for one happen to keep a diary, which I can't really attend to regularly, rather I return to it occasionally. Now it so happened that the other day I was organizing all my books and among them found my last year's diary. I skimmed through the pages and felt like I was reading a page from somebody else's. I started recollecting the events which I had almost forgotten but happened only a few months ago. Then in a certain section I was a bit pensive when going through a particularly emotional phase. Then a pang of disappointment hit me when I realised that I have looked over so many things that I had promised to do last year. Then I stumbled upon a few nice days where I was having great fun which uplifted the gloominess.

It really felt a bit nostalgic and quaint revisiting the days gone by. Do you guys go through your old diaries? If not then do it and when you open it, go to a random page and start reading it. It just feels like being transported in a time machine, the difference being that we know what's in store for us. Still it refreshes the old memories, some trivial events which might have felt so consequential at that time but so insignificant now, the broken promises and the abandoned hopes, the achievements and the pleasures, all come rushing back. Visiting old memory lanes, I wonder what it'll be like when I'll reread the same pages maybe after another thirty odd years.