Losing a notebook is one of the most upsetting things that can happen to someone, as far as Im concerned.
The most interesting thing about notebooks, more specifically personal notebooks is that we usually tend to write down things that we arent going to soon forget in them. We use them to facilitate conversation with ourselves, not to prevent the loss of memories.
No one forgets the events that lead to a broken heart, a particularly good summers day, or the time you met a person in some small café downtown who would become your best friend.
And yet, these are the things we write about in solitude, rarely ever showing the pages to another soul.
I think we all want someone to read our notebooks when were not around.