I go through my old archives from social media and journals etc regularly so that I can input them into obsidian for future review. On some days some posts are quite amusing or provoking, so I thought I’ll share them:
I’m always so amused reading my past journal entries. I’m like, “poor child, you have zero idea what is going to happen.”
– 18th Jun 2016, twitter
I always laugh to myself whenever I come across this. My younger self was full of idealism and naivety. I really had no idea what was going to happen of course. It serves as a good reminder that even now I will have no idea what is going to happen in the future.
tethering works; if only I can have a portable power supply & my #workinstrangeplacesplans can commence soon!
– 18th Jun 2009, twitter
This tweet is like a historical artefact: I guess power banks are so common now I don’t stop to think they didn’t exist before. For a long time they couldn’t charge laptops too. Tethering was only introduced in the iphone in 2009.
I used to write serious-sounding entries like these in my dayone:
it used to surprise me to realise I’ve changed, but somehow that’s because we hold the conditioning that our personalities are fixed and difficult to change — like the leopard never changes its spots — the reality is we are constantly transforming, and the way to quicken that transformation is to interact more with the world, as we come into contact with more stimuli, the more we are inevitably shaped, because that’s how our brain works: our neurons and cells are constantly reorganising themselves according to the stimuli they receive.
– 18th Jun 2019, dayone
We simply create fantasies of life over and over again: creating rules, systems, ideas of how we think things should be, but they are often nothing more than a story we wish to believe: of others, of ourselves, of the world.
– 18th Jun 2019, dayone
I do it less these days. I am not sure if it is because I am a somewhat lighter person now and spend less time swimming in these potentially convoluted thoughts, or my mind has degraded with age?
posts I wrote on 18th june:
- 2023: on imagining myself as a game character I guess I like using game metaphors considering I just wrote playing my own little game
- 2015: reconstructing myself – “What is the point of having everything, and feeling dead inside?”
I wonder what I’ll do on this day in future years? I feel like I may have differing thoughts to the same content.