a pretty cool thing is how many archivists of various things there are . people mostly don't realize but if you write down What It's Like For Me At This Time In This Place and look for some archive to take it you'll often find one that does want to document the lives of a certain type of person in a certain global region and which accept diaries or personal accounts. like not always obviously but I do think it would be a really cool way to say "this is how it was for me!" to someone potentially decades and decades into the future, someone who must have gone in specifically wondering "what was it like for this kind of person, during these kind of events at this particular time?" and they'll learn what it was like for YOU!
THAT'S SO COOL I AM WAVING TO FUTURE ARCHIVISTS HIIIIIIIII~~~~~
I'm always thinking about thisβ if I kept a diary for future historians/equivalents, what do they want to know?
it varies depending on the archive of course but many truly just want everyday accounts of life. the information being sought is often just "what was the life of a person alive in this time and place like" and you can answer this question by saying "here is what it was like for me"
this sounds so fake to say about Now, but think about how we feel about for example, queer archives documenting people's lives from the 80s and 90s. that was Now then, but Now is 2026 at this moment. and its interesting and important to us to know what peoples lives were like then. and in fifty years it will be interesting and important for future people to know what our lives were like Now :)
