Dear Bloggers:
I know a lot of you have gone through or are going through a lot of changes in your life and, as such, a lot of what you posted years ago, in your view, has become irrelevant or no longer pertains to how you think or are living right now in the present moment.
...however, you all seem to forget that some of those past posts of yours comprised a few insightful observations and musings.
When you either delete posts, or even entire sites, there may be a lot of "epitome of your past selves" that go with them---but often a lot of what you had to say then also had a lot of significance of its own, and those ideas and observations disappear along with whatever past elements "embarrass you now".
One will often post something passionately that, when they look it over six months later, will wonder "Was I really this full-of-shit to think that?". But one should still leave such a post up just the same, if for no other reason, to remind oneself just how fickle life, circumstance, and one's own self can be in "the overall scheme of things".
I know a lot of you have gone through or are going through a lot of changes in your life and, as such, a lot of what you posted years ago, in your view, has become irrelevant or no longer pertains to how you think or are living right now in the present moment.
...however, you all seem to forget that some of those past posts of yours comprised a few insightful observations and musings.
When you either delete posts, or even entire sites, there may be a lot of "epitome of your past selves" that go with them---but often a lot of what you had to say then also had a lot of significance of its own, and those ideas and observations disappear along with whatever past elements "embarrass you now".
One will often post something passionately that, when they look it over six months later, will wonder "Was I really this full-of-shit to think that?". But one should still leave such a post up just the same, if for no other reason, to remind oneself just how fickle life, circumstance, and one's own self can be in "the overall scheme of things".
I suppose if you change how you feel about something, then you don't want people thinking you still feel the same way about it.
ReplyDelete...or write a new post stating how you "now feel about" said subject matter.
DeleteDeleting a post doesn't mean it is really erased thanks to the Wayback Machine.
ReplyDeleteWhat about all those re-edits I do on some of my posts, sometimes even after publishing?
DeleteAre there, like, three or four "versions" of certain posts?