On Re-Reading Old Musings

Part of the reason I'm writing on this blog is that, well, I think it's just kind of nice to have a place where things are consolidated so that I can come back and read it easily. I have a couple of journals where I have thoughts written down- from different stages of life. It's always an interesting exercise to go back and read what I wrote several years ago. I was recently hunting for a quote for the yearbook, so I went back to a little black hardbound journal that I picked up at the art store the summer after freshman year. It's titled, "Thoughts Quotes Poems" and rightly so. It's got my thoughts, some poetry that I wrote, and quotes that I really thought were good to remember. It's back from the days when I liked to write in size 8 font or something similar to that. So, there aren't all that many pages with writing on them even though the edges are frayed from days spent jostled around in my backpack with all the other wonderful things a mechE thinks it's necessary to have around. But back to the quote search. I finally found a quote that I wanted to put in my yearbook- something I actually had a hard time finding on multiple pages on Wikiquote. Yep, I like to use Wikipedia for finding quotes as well as everything else useful... Anyhow, here was what I picked. ""A hundred years from now, who will care how successful we were or how comfortable our lives were? What will matter then is what we invested our lives in." It's from End of the Spear by Steve Saint (he was quoting a friend who isn't named). It's definitely something to think about. And figure out priorities by. Hence the post yesterday...