Does anyone ever read their old posts for fun? I sometimes read mine. If I see that someone has looked at an older post. I wonder what prompted their interest and if they found what they were looking for.
Sometimes though I read my old posts randomly and it is like reading a diary.
Today I read several of the posts I’d written about cricket. I don’t write those much now because I only see cricket on TV but when I went to matches in Hobart I used to take a lot of photos and it’s fun to look back on those events and see who I was able to photograph. I did not like taking posed photos, it was always action shots or those where the player was intent on what was going on in the field or talking to someone else.
I like looking back at old travel posts too. Our cruises, holidays that David and I took to various places, steam train trips and so on.
Sometimes I look at a post and think that it’s time to dust it off and post it again but mostly I just enjoy reminiscing.
Old questionairre posts like Share Your World can be interesting as they are the most diary like in providing a glimpse into what was going on at the time. The months I spent making trips to Hobart to visit David in hospital, the progress of my house decorating and eventual sale. At least I know that when my memory is completely shot I’ll have some record of what I did, where I went and how I felt about it.
I’ve been at this nearly seven years now so there is quite a bit of material stored in these posts. One day perhaps I’ll look at them and think “Was that really me?”
I sift through mine fairly frequently. Mostly, I’m amazed at how much better I write now … and how I think I took better pictures 10 years ago! AND how much my opinions have changed.
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Yes, I’ve done that too. Mostly for the same reason you mentioned. When someone comments on my older posts. I can’t remember every single word I wrote and to give an honest reply, I am going through the post again. And sometimes it’s just curiosity as it is quite interesting to rediscover old posts.
I found own posts that I find super cool and others that I find embarrassing today. But as my personality evolves, so does my blog. So, I don’t delete any posts as I wouldn’t pull pages out of a diary book either.
The first thing that comes to my mind when I read my older posts is, especially if I look at the post date, that I find it quite interesting for how long I already cared about my blog.
I remember your autumn evening picture.
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To add to it… like Marilyn said, I am also amazed at how my writing improved. As I always say when I am writing about my English skills… I am 100% sure that I still make many mistakes and I am sure I still need to improve further. But looking back at my 2011 or 2012 posts, even I do realize how much better my English is today. I don’t like self-praise but looking back at those posts, it’s just too obvious.
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It is obvious Dennis, you write very fluently in English now, the odd mistake but even we English speaking writers make mistakes so don’t worry about that.
I have used that autumn evening picture a few times because I don’t often get out to take photos at that time of day and I liked that one even though I still associate it with all those trips to the hospital to see David that winter.
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