Right now, I should be working on the 10-page draft of my final paper due Thursday for my Italian Cinema class.
What am I doing instead?
Reading old Xanga entries that a much younger Brian made in high school.
Biggest frustrations?
Quotes that have no context to help me remember what they mean and cryptic four-word entries that I can't figure out, either.
Even still, though, I can't help but be a little amazed reading some of the thoughts that 16- or 17-year-old Brian put together.
I almost feel as if I may have known more then than I do now.
Or maybe it's just the opposite--I didn't know as much and so the world seemed a much simpler place.
With some of the entries, though, it seems as if they were written for me to read now. I don't know exactly what I was talking about at the time, or the context of my thoughts, but they somehow reach across the years and . . . remind? . . . me of truths I've overlooked as I've "grown up."
Have you ever read something you wrote years before that still spoke to you now?
I'm in a thoughtful mood . . .
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No joke, I've had the exact same thought in wondering if I knew more then than I do know.
While I know that's not true, I have come to realize that without that knowledge and that drive at such a young age, I would not be where I am now.
This is one reason I love the internet-- journals like Xanga really have no way of being lost unless the creators shut it down for good.
Definitely! Anytime I read my old stuff it always speaks to me (and sometimes embarrasses me, ha ha).
Hey, it's the Jew, and yes, I'm bored, feeling stalkery, and I should be working on a paper right now, BUT...
This reminds me of stuff that I've looked up from when I was young. Unfortunately I was a wordy when I was a pre-teen so I remember all the context of what I was saying, even though I was a horrible, horrible writer at the time. Fortunately, I've grown out of whatever wangst that had me by the lapels. Unfortunately, I can't read all of m old journals without being embarrassed. Hence why I rarely rant about real life on LJ.
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