Wednesday, October 16, 2013

Discouragement

Looking for a post I put up in 2007, I wearily scanned everything I wrote in 2005-2007. I was impressed with how brilliant I was then. In fact, I wondered why I had bothered to write anything at all since my first ten months of blogging.

Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain.

4 comments:

  1. And...the Nobel Prize for Blogging goes to.....Assistant Village Idiot -- for his groundbreaking work from 2007-2009 which helped make the world safe for village idiots everywhere.

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  2. My philosophy is, sure I'm getting dumber, but the good stuff still comes now and then . . .

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  3. I've changed somewhat from the man who wrote the posts 10 years ago. What I've been thinking about has changed too. So when I read the old posts they seem fresher, and point up things I haven't thought about in a while. So they seem more challenging, and therefore wiser, than the things I wrote more recently.

    The more recent posts are fresher in my mind, and if I were to write them again I'd (I tell myself) write them better because I thought of new facets--so they seem inferior.

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  4. James, that is likely part of it.

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