Back in 2001, when I first started prattling on electronically, I started to title every entry that I wrote with a quote from the movie that I had on at the time. Tonight’s is brought to you by a middle of the night showing of Serenity on one of the five HBO channels that I get.
All of the old journal entries have now been dragged in to the blog. It’s very interesting and scary at the same time to see entries go back as far as June of 2001. Even scarier was actually reading some of these old entries (as I mentioned yesterday). Most importantly, though, was the discovery that I could actually learn something about myself by reading this old entries. Some memories I had stored away came back at me full force, other things I discovered that I couldn’t remember even if you wanted to pay me to remember them.
One thing became very loud and clear to met though, there is some importance to me in maintaining this useless space on the Internet if for no other reason then to be able to look back at my life at a later date and give myself the chance to slip back into the shoes that I wore at the time and walk a mile again in those same said shoes. The nostalgic effect of this is quite powerful.
I also like seeing the way that the pattern of usage on the journal. You can tell that when I started doing it that I was a man of more time then occupation, and you can also see that at the point where those two became reversed the amount of entries was severely diminished. Such a thing would be expected but I feel that from this point forward I have to fight the neglect and let my fingers do the talking more. I like to write, I like the things that I write when I’ve been doing a lot of writing, and I see some of the guy that I want to be again in those entries of old that I just spent far too much time integrating into this site.
At this moment though I don’t really have anything witty or amusing to write about because it’s two o’clock in the morning and I’ve just resorted to some Bailey’s to get myself into the proper mind set for sleep. Seeing as how I’m a man that is very light on the consumption of alcohol it is doing the job quite nicely.
If you are reading this, welcome to the party. I hope you get to read more from me in the future.
-WW
