Blog Epiphany

I was thinking about my blog today. I know that I have a very small but loyal following among friends and family (thanks Heather, Ewan, Jennifer and Kari!), but I was reflecting on why I have always been a compulsive diarist, and who I am writing for. I have been writing a diary off and on since I was five. I still have my old diaries and the very first one consists mainly of single sentence entries such as "I love Granpa" and "Susan is soree when she is notee"! I then continue through the 1960's and 70's, faithfully recording what I was doing at school, friends, family holidays, and later on a couple of early "loves" - nothing too embarrassing! James makes his first appearance  at the end of the 1970's and then I take a bit of a break from keeping a diary apart from a few holiday journals. I start again in earnest in 1996. By this time Jamie, Ally and Davie had been born and I was keen to record their early childhoods. I'm so glad that I did; I was looking through my diaries yesterday to find out some information that Ally wanted (about holidays) and those three little boys that I was writing about were impossibly sweet, and the diary really reminded me and brought it back to me. So that partly answers my question; one person that the diaries are for is me!  But that's not the whole story, because I won't always be here. So on reflection I decided that in addition to myself and close family and friends, this blog has to be for my descendants! Imagine if it is read in 100 years by someone who is descended from me and James, and although they will live in very different times they may even be a wee bit like me!