The masochist in me says Keep Em All! even the cringeworthy stuff helps you see how far youve come.. and if anyone was so inclined to check out your archives... they'd get to experience that.
I would say "keep 'em all," but this is coming from the guy who just found 8-9 year old letters from his college penpal while cleaning his apartment a couple weeks ago.
I recently found in my basement a pile of home-made storybooks I made when I was 7, complete with awful hand-lettering and illustrations. They were just some of the zillions of things I made growing up, but I can't bear to get rid of them.
I dunno what you're supposed to get out of that. Oo; Sorry. I always think it's better to keep my journal intact, but that's me.
ROFL... love the icon. Yeah, I don't know why it is that "little kid" stuff is sacrosanct, but the teenage/college years stuff-not so much. Weird. We have a whole mess of stuff from when I was very little.
Youth has a quality of romance that quarter-life and near-quarter-life never quite equals. Nostalgia for innocence, simplicity, limited amounts of responsability, and fond memories ultimately outweigh the 70 some odd years following (at least in terms of stuff you keep forever and ever). When comparing that to searching for one's identity, or attempting to find one's self which dominates puberty, and tween-dom, the very act thereof marks a line between youth and adulthood.
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even the cringeworthy stuff helps you see how far youve come.. and if anyone was so inclined to check out your archives... they'd get to experience that.
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heh.
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I dunno what you're supposed to get out of that. Oo; Sorry. I always think it's better to keep my journal intact, but that's me.
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Nostalgia for innocence, simplicity, limited amounts of responsability, and fond memories ultimately outweigh the 70 some odd years following (at least in terms of stuff you keep forever and ever).
When comparing that to searching for one's identity, or attempting to find one's self which dominates puberty, and tween-dom, the very act thereof marks a line between youth and adulthood.
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