Rewriting a deleted blog

A friend once told me a secret. For a long time, she blogged an anonymous journal of her most private thoughts and confidential affairs. She’d die if people found out it was her. It was hidden for a long time until she felt it was time to delete it. Life, I gathered from her, has a way of closing chapters abruptly, in ways we can never predict, endings that are not really endings but more of a suspension, a limbo. She had asked me if she’d done the right thing, deleting it. Because really, what keeps us from NOT muffling these inner voices? Better forget about writing, I thought. Go see a therapist and save time typing and blocking spam.

Because if truth be told, she said that much of the affairs she’d written, ended unkindly, like most secrets do; not so much of a release but a wait and see. But I had to ask myself, what happens then after the wait and see? As it turned out, this was what my friend really wanted to find out. How does she go back to these stories after she’d clicked on the delete key? And why, in the first place, what for?

Here, based on experience and what I’ve learned, are some of the thoughts I posed for her to consider in reclaiming her deleted blog through memory.

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