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old soul
I think that personally I’ve always been somewhat hesitant to fully endorse the web2.0 — the evolution of our media and the way we consume and view things. I really do think that tumblr is a successful extension of our generation; we love to consume and share things at a feverish pace and if you follow enough people, there isn’t a second where if you refreshed, you would get the exact same dashboard.
Yet I feel like there’s something missing, and looking back on my own posts, I realized that as soon as you view someone’s blog, it’s all wrong. I tried to google “how to tumblr in chronological order,” but I don’t think there’s an option for that. I think for most people, having their immediate thoughts available is ideal; we live in a world of now and that’s why things like twitter and facebook continue to flourish. But for some who really pour their hearts and souls into what they write, I feel like it’s a disservice to try to read it backwards. there isn’t anything lost when you read it from back to front, but like most literary works there is something to be gained from reading it from the beginning to the end. it’s just something that i regret when looking back and seeing a total of 15 actual posts on this thing. I think i’m going to import all the blogs i can find in my lifetime, because this blog encapsulates only one very small piece in my life. I thought that I was starting anew, but I think that more than anything I was running from the mess that my life has/had been in the past few years. I’m more ashamed that there has been hundreds of opportunities in my lifetime where I had something to reflect on, but I was too scared of myself to put it down, and chose to rather sleep and dull the thought into the back of my lost memories. If I really look and try to repost all of my blogs, I’ll realize how splotchy it all is. And that’s a damn shame. I’ll do what I can, and pledge to myself to archive it all here, so one day I can read this book to see how I got to where I am now. I’m not afraid anymore.
