Pointers to brain

I don’t know but something has led me to post more blogs these days. I used to maintain a diary during my undergrad years till quite recently, and in it I used to write my thoughts and ideas as is. With ‘as is’ I mean, that unlike writing a blog or a comment to a blog, which needs to be read again to make it sound coherent and flowing, my writings in the diary were exactly the words I used to think in. The ideas which were very clear in my mind, when written in a diary, used to come out as words totally abstract. The entries in my diary are so abstract that no one else can ever understand what I am trying to say there. But, when I read them again even now, I can recall the context, my mood and exactly what I was trying to say when I wrote those words. Its amazing how those simple English sentences are cryptic messages that only I can decode. They are like pointers to my brain analogous to pointers in C++. They store the address location of the idea that came to my mind some years back. As soon as my mind sees those seemingly vague sentences it goes to the address location that still stores that idea and every data point is available to the active memory! It is quite amazing actually. It also tells me that our brain’s storage capacity is enormous. To further elaborate on this, consider this – when we recall something that happened years back, we actually recall those instances the way our eyes had recorded them - as clear motion pictures of extremely high quality (not as text files). Considering how many things we remember and can recall when encountered with small pointers, it is amazing how much we store in our brain!

I think a diary should not become extinct because of blogging. Most of the texts we read or write – in books, internet or papers are carefully crafted collections of sentences. One idea flows from the previous one and everything falls into place. A diary is the only proper manifestation of the complicated way our brain works. It needs no revisions simply because a diary is for ourselves to be read again and a blog is for others. One motivation of writing this is a hope that other bloggers realize what I am trying to say and dig up their diaries to read them again – to discover what pointers to brain exist in them!