This is worth a post 6 hours later--I mean, it's sort of the next day, anyway.
So I was cleaning stuff up this weekend. I got exhausted and as I was about to give up I found an old college diary. I'd planned to plow through it at the beginning of the year.
I was rather sad to note there were only 44 pages. I know I'd looked at it before and was scared about what I might find--if I found anything silly, anything that I'd be embarrassed about, or even anything that showed me my ideas now aren't quite as developed in the last X years as I thought.
Turns out there was a decent combination of everything, with my favorite quote being the probably throwaway (at the time) "Packed my nerf hoop and shower curtain. I'm ready for my final year of college!" (I moved to non university housing.)
I used the nerf hoop entirely too much. I even found the old ball I used to shoot. I managed to get pretty good--I could hit long-range shots from pretty far away, limited only by how the ceiling was 18 inches above the top of the door.
So I had my biggest note writing day in a long time--largely due to, well, that I've been keeping my notes up to date. And I've been doing a lot more proofreading lately. Pasta fazoo.
Apparently there was a lot I'd forgotten I'd made peace with myself over. And there was a lot of my life I'd forgotten how fragmented it was. And a lot of mistakes I made were understandable, and there were a lot of details to fill in I don't know why I didn't write before--that I'd have forgotten without the big picture notes.
Only disappointment was, I wish I wrote more. Two obvious morals here--if there's a cheap thing-to-do-before-year's-end, holiday time is a good time to squeeze it in. Second, even if you might do something badly, you'll be able to refine it later, if it's what you really want to do. Well, you all probably knew that. But sometimes these reminders tip off specific things to want/do.
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zippdementia - December 24, 2009 (09:29 PM) Cool post. I like the ending advice. |
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