I have been devouring a wide variety of books this summer, including Michael King’s Penguin History of New Zealand that I’ve been meaning to read for a number of years. A quote from it has stayed in the back of my mind and I’ve been pondering it:
…societies are conditioned not so much by events as by group memories of events…
The stories we share about something that happened become clearer over time that the actual happening itself. This is true in blogging – in years to come we can look back and re-read what we wrote on our blog, what others wrote on their blogs and what is shared takes on a life of its own. The stories we share and laugh about and reminisce over remain more in our minds than the countless other events which fade in our memories.
