History Unfolds

What does it mean to have history unfolding? With what has been going on recently in Egypt it is hard to say that the events are not significant. But what is it that makes something history?  I would say that to qualify something as history it would have to be written down. And so, since so much has been written down and recorded about the events in Egypt it is indeed history unfolding before our eyes and being written by our hands.  So what does this mean for us?  What is our perspective on what is happening in Egypt? This is where I make a plug (and confession) for personal journals.  If we record our perspective on what is going on around us in the world and add our interpretation of it our family that comes after us will have a unique record with which the can understand what was going on in the world around us during our time and see how it affected our everyday lives.  Now for my confession.  I haven't been keeping a regular journal very good at all.  For one thing it is so much easier for me to type then it is for me to write but what do I do with a bunch of files if I do type out my journal (whichI have tried to do in the past).  Do I print them out and then try and bind them into something that might be a little more permanent than a three ring binder?  It is more practical in the long run to hand write my journal but then out comes the lazy bug in me saying it is too hard to take the time to write something down.  Well, it's kick in the pants time.  Time for me to get a little (very little) more serious about writing in my journal.