Skip ([info]drifterskip) wrote,
@ 2008-10-10 16:11:00
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"Well, I guess we're gonna find out: let's see how far we've come..."
You know what I find fascinating? When you go back over things you wrote and you find the lost last-minute scribblings and the detrital old documents: the stuff you completely forgot you'd ever written. Maybe even stuff you wish you could re-forget now that you've re-discovered it. Yet in the midst of every cringe-worthy story skeleton and pretentious poetic attempt, you unearth glimpses of yourself. Of course, they tend to be the hazy, crazy furtive glances that cause you to take a double-take and when you look back there's nothing there anymore. It's moved on. You move on. I dunno. I'm just saying. It's fascinating.



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[info]greenapple_sea
2008-10-11 03:35 am UTC (link)
I love going back through old journals and realizing what an obnoxious, ornery kid I was back in the day. And I still can be. ^_^ It's better than a photograph that only preserves the external... its our thoughts immortalized. :)

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[info]palan_diriel
2008-10-11 07:53 am UTC (link)
Most of the things that I've thought that I don't post are memorials to the fact that I am in love with my best friend and would rather not be as he does not reciprocate the feeling. I try every night that I end up awake at 3 or 4 to resist posting something stupid like this but it never happens. That is why most of the time, I end up crying at 3. This is my on-going saga since sophomore year. Welcome to my life.

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[info]flaxeloquent
2008-10-11 11:52 am UTC (link)
Yup, and it can be cringe-worthy, but no one else has to see it. And it probably had some role in making you the writer you currently are.

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