Recordin of one's life - or not

Would like to come back to writing.  My editor in Kobe told me a long time ago when I started my life as a wife of a diplomat that I need to write down everything I experienced and thought and felt in exotic places, otherwise everything will be forgotten.  Now I realized that it's true - I always thought of his advise, but many other things  - little distractions in my daily life - occupied my time and I never got to do the proper "recording".  I'm still torn between recording of my experience and my thought each moment of my life and other desire to let it go.