Really, though.
Mar. 25th, 2006 10:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
opabiniaWhat else is new?
Memories are so important to a person's makeup. Whether they're correct doesn't matter here -- their general, cumulative power over one's experience of life is unaffected by trifles like accuracy. One of the reasons I started this journal is so that I could keep better track of chronologies, of memories in a fresher state, so I could theoretically learn more, or learn better, from what came to pass, so I could keep a firmer grasp on causation, or at least trending.
I'm going back (or, I should say, I intend to go back, because I've started, but I've stopped, and I want to resume) and re-reading everything, re-categorizing experiences in my mind, re-assessing where I did well, where I fucked up; making little additions (not changes, not "corrections") here and there -- current perspectives, with dates attached.
I'm adding "Memories" willy-nilly, and I'm sure I'll pare them down later.
I'm changing the way I treat Private entries, so as to permit recording things online, but making the entries invisible from any page, then moving them offline and hiding them. A private entry doesn't have the same psychotech value to me if I think, even for an instant, that its existence (nevermind its contents) could be made known to anyone else. Go to Archive view for anyone's journal, and see how many entries you can find on the calendar, but not read when you select the day.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
couplingchaos mentioned this to me recently. I had started the process of migrating entries out just two weeks before, so that made for a weird coincidence.
Private entries are where I deal with, reflect on, or enjoy things I don't want to share, or I'm not ready to share; and I type things out that I don't mean, trying to expose the thought patterns beneath. I dislike to think that someone might see a private entry in Archive mode, and wonder what it is I'm hiding, or what I'm hiding from them -- we're all wired to assume it's about us, though we may try to talk ourselves out of it. It's just Biology.
Anyway, that's not what this entry was going to be about, but it was a nice tangent, so I'll keep it.
Memories are so important to a person's makeup. Whether they're correct doesn't matter here -- their general, cumulative power over one's experience of life is unaffected by trifles like accuracy. One of the reasons I started this journal is so that I could keep better track of chronologies, of memories in a fresher state, so I could theoretically learn more, or learn better, from what came to pass, so I could keep a firmer grasp on causation, or at least trending.
I'm going back (or, I should say, I intend to go back, because I've started, but I've stopped, and I want to resume) and re-reading everything, re-categorizing experiences in my mind, re-assessing where I did well, where I fucked up; making little additions (not changes, not "corrections") here and there -- current perspectives, with dates attached.
I'm adding "Memories" willy-nilly, and I'm sure I'll pare them down later.
I'm changing the way I treat Private entries, so as to permit recording things online, but making the entries invisible from any page, then moving them offline and hiding them. A private entry doesn't have the same psychotech value to me if I think, even for an instant, that its existence (nevermind its contents) could be made known to anyone else. Go to Archive view for anyone's journal, and see how many entries you can find on the calendar, but not read when you select the day.
couplingchaos mentioned this to me recently. I had started the process of migrating entries out just two weeks before, so that made for a weird coincidence.Private entries are where I deal with, reflect on, or enjoy things I don't want to share, or I'm not ready to share; and I type things out that I don't mean, trying to expose the thought patterns beneath. I dislike to think that someone might see a private entry in Archive mode, and wonder what it is I'm hiding, or what I'm hiding from them -- we're all wired to assume it's about us, though we may try to talk ourselves out of it. It's just Biology.
Anyway, that's not what this entry was going to be about, but it was a nice tangent, so I'll keep it.
