The Habit of Writing Things Down (a work of fiction)

Once there was a postman who went door to door to deliver mails, ever diligently, day in and day out.

He would write down their addresses, the distances of their homes to the post office, and describe the day's weather as accurately as possible.

That, he liked to do and he enjoyed his job. The letters are important, he would say. I deliver happiness to others. News are always sought after, he had added.

When he died, his logbooks were kept by the local library and kept under lock and key by the librarians, as a record of the efficiency of their postal service.

Hundreds of years later, the postman's work was referred to by scientific researchers who inquired into weather patterns at the location in the past years. They were terribly glad to have found this postman's diary, and based on his description of the clouds, these researchers were able to plot the weather trends of that locality quite accurately.

It is interesting how something so menial could have contributed to a lot of meaning much3 later on. That is the power of writing things down.