Sometimes I wonder whether I'd be better off "losing" certain things I've written, rather than saving them indefinitely for posterity (or whatever other reason
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Dude. That was weird. I got your IM about your first names. Then I remembered I had your address somewhere (but not in my excel address "book") so I started looking through your old comments and email (yes I save everything from everybody; call me a packrat) to try and find your address to see if I remembered your last name correctly. I did. I have a guess to your first name now, but either I'm way off and you're already SO SO SOOOOOOO tired of people joking about this aaaaand you having to deal with your real name or I'm so right on and HA. But now I can at least send you a postcard with the dead sea scrolls on it. But anyways. As I was looking through your old comments, on one of them you put this site as your webpage so I clicked it, fully expecting the last update to be sometime in 2004, and whaddya know - you were posting about searching for names! So yeah. Something about full circle. And this is my LJ who only some people know about.
I'm a packrat, too, and I've never wanted to lose anything I've written, even the painful stuff.
However, this said, I don't have your reaction to re-reading stuff written in my dark hours. It doesn't transport me back there.
I do know some people who've written down their painful experiences, and then deliberately destroyed the record, often in a dramatic fashion, like burning it. The idea there is to get the bad feelings onto paper to purge them from your mind, and then destroy the record as a way of symbolically destroying the unhappiness it represents. I'm kind of tempted to try that, myself. I think it'd be a cool way of venting frustrations.
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But anyways. As I was looking through your old comments, on one of them you put this site as your webpage so I clicked it, fully expecting the last update to be sometime in 2004, and whaddya know - you were posting about searching for names! So yeah. Something about full circle.
And this is my LJ who only some people know about.
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However, this said, I don't have your reaction to re-reading stuff written in my dark hours. It doesn't transport me back there.
I do know some people who've written down their painful experiences, and then deliberately destroyed the record, often in a dramatic fashion, like burning it. The idea there is to get the bad feelings onto paper to purge them from your mind, and then destroy the record as a way of symbolically destroying the unhappiness it represents. I'm kind of tempted to try that, myself. I think it'd be a cool way of venting frustrations.
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