Personal Narrative: In Order To Remember By Didion

First of all, I definitely relate to her story. I do have an impulse to write things down. I use to carry a small notebook around and write notes of various moments, observations, memories, whatever I fancy. Now I use my phone journal app and I use it all the time.
Why do I write it down? As Didion writes, “In order to remember.” Of course, it leaves the question, “what was it I wanted to remember?” I like to pull out those notes and think of stories I can write or try and figure out why I even wrote them. Often it doesn’t make sense, but I keep them anyway. Unfortunately, it’s all thinking and not enough writing and full of starts and stops with nothing in between. I’m always running on a quarter tank of gas and run out before I can reach