the first linestrokes
"Memories are like books. Some became our favourites. Their paragraphs, lines, dots are carved in the back of our mind. While some, the less-favored, left dusted-stacked under our beds. Being forgotten. Writing the memories down is like creating the bookshelf, the safe haven for our memories to always be readily within our hand reach. Because we, as a human, tend to forget things. We need the writings help." I used to have a keen interest in writing things when i was in an elementary school. I still remember vividly how much i liked to spent hours daily, writing things down in my old mauve-with-lock diary. Telling what i'd been through, how much i liked the newly released Spongebob the Movie, or how devastated it felt when i lost something that i hold dearly. I don't remember how or when i ended up putting my favourite diary under my bed along with any other long-lost books and stopped to write. Maybe it was around junior high school, when i rather chose to keep an...