I sat down and spent a good part of the afternoon uncovering that I had pretty much a day-to-day account of most of my adult life. Search history going back to at least 2009. Social networks, forums, bookmarks, IM and IRC logs, old contacts, iCal archives, contact archives, e-mails, videos, annotations, journal entries, photos that go even further.
List could go on.
It was how I responded to people and reacted to situations. Insignificant things to hurtful things to extraordinary things. Things buried and forgotten. There's the saying that if you travel far enough, you'll eventually meet yourself. I started reading messages I'd written to people a decade ago and felt I went full circle. It was an uneasy feeling like a place I shouldn't go.
After skimming through a transcript, I stopped and asked myself if I needed to really go back to who I was and run it up to speed with who I am now. It's been running around in my head that maybe the last 10 or 15 years with the internet may have painted the most detailed day-to-day picture of humanity.
Guess the question is ... do you look back? Is it surprising or shocking to see the person you were and who you are now? Does it even matter? Do these things need to stay with us?
Exterminate if too metaphysical.
List could go on.
It was how I responded to people and reacted to situations. Insignificant things to hurtful things to extraordinary things. Things buried and forgotten. There's the saying that if you travel far enough, you'll eventually meet yourself. I started reading messages I'd written to people a decade ago and felt I went full circle. It was an uneasy feeling like a place I shouldn't go.
After skimming through a transcript, I stopped and asked myself if I needed to really go back to who I was and run it up to speed with who I am now. It's been running around in my head that maybe the last 10 or 15 years with the internet may have painted the most detailed day-to-day picture of humanity.
Guess the question is ... do you look back? Is it surprising or shocking to see the person you were and who you are now? Does it even matter? Do these things need to stay with us?
Exterminate if too metaphysical.