the good old days

[low_delta]

I went through a lot of my journal entries from 2001. A few things struck me.

I posted multiple times per day. Now it's only a couple of times a week.
I was much funnier and a better writer.
I struggled a lot, emotionally that year.
I was apparently a romantic guy. I wasn't aware of this.

Comments

[sirreal13.livejournal.com]

"I was much funnier and a better writer." You're still a great writer and, if not for the aches and pains of growing older and losing friends to medical crises, you're still funny. As far as romance, I can't comment.

2001 was a long time ago. I think I've gotten more political, but there are less people to interact with around these parts and there really isn't a way to register how people have read and liked my stuff, so I don't post very often. LJ doesn't work very well on my iPhone, so I've gotten lazy.

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

When I used to write concert reviews, I was pretty good. I can't write those like I used to. It's like I can't think of anything to write.

I don't post politics here anymore. I post very little on Facebook, and try not to do much that would bother the other side very much.

Thanks.

[ranunculus.livejournal.com]

As is obvious, I don't post much either. Somehow a lot of the stories I wanted to tell have been told. Really, how many times do you want to read about how to build a fence, or how beautiful the Ranch is in Spring?
Like you I think the quality of what I write is different, before I spent a lot of time and energy attempting to really tell a story, now I just chronicle what happened.

Hope your back is doing well!

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

I notice that when people ask me what I've been up to, I don't always have a good answer. It's all been seem and done before. And I now realize why older people seldom talked about what they'd been up to.

The back is... could be better. Not tons of pain - mostly numbness.

[ravenfeather.livejournal.com]

Really, how many times do you want to read about how to build a fence, or how beautiful the Ranch is in Spring?

Every time. I understand how it gets old to WRITE about the same old same old over and over again, but some of us still like reading about it.

[ranunculus.livejournal.com]

Thank You. That really is encouraging. :)
Story on this weekend pending.

[ravenfeather.livejournal.com]

YAY! I had an entry at some point where you posted the link to your DW, so I could just go poke it to get to you. I need to go back and find that.

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

I basically agree with Raven's take on that kind of posting.

[ravengirl.livejournal.com]

lol!!!! I've done similarly in the past-- gone over my journal and thought, Huh.

I don't think any of us post daily now, let alone multiple times. I know I post on FB now, even when it's just a throwaway post, or something musical. But LJ takes more effort since I began thinking of it as ONLY my journal. FB is where people go multiple times per day, now, so I see them there usually.

I think you're a good writer-- but possibly, with more practice, we do get better and we don't practice like we used to. And it's likely that you ARE a romantic, so you're romantic. But the way you write it up there is funny! ;)

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

When I think of something funny to say, I say it in Facebook, if at all. Or music-related stuff.

LJ does take more work, since that's where I go to post on in-depth topics. And I don't have all that much time to post, so I don't post much, even when there's something I want to say.

My writing has probably gotten better in the technical sense, I feel like I struggle more to find things to say about the subject.

Thanks!

[pondhopper.livejournal.com]

We all change in 15 years. I am grateful for the people who are faithful here and it doesn't matter to me one bit if they repeat themselves. I just appreciate the contact with them no matter what is expressed or how it's said.
I have always been a once a day poster and I have repeated subjects multiple times. And that's ok. Life is never a series of new stuff all the time.

I still dislike FB a lot. It's just not my way of expression and I am sad that people have gone over to that easy way of doing things. But everybody has the right to do whatever they feel best? easiest? with.

I have never minded the work I put into posting here. It keeps my brain active in a good way and keeps me from becoming complacent. And people who say they have nothing to say? There's always something to say!

[ranunculus.livejournal.com]

I have to agree with you. On my very first ever (and last) FB post I tried to do a LJ like thought. FB cut me off half way through. I never went back.

[pondhopper.livejournal.com]

The only reason I'm there is because Julia maintains a page at FB for pictures of Maia. I do keep up with a few people who have defected from LJ but rarely say much myself. It's just not my style for the most part.
One thing Fb is useful for is what I call "throwing pictues at" when I travel. Straight from the phone to FB. Otherwise I prefer to do full picture posts here after we get back from wherever with my real photos taken with a real camera.

I am so old-fashioned.
:P

[ranunculus.livejournal.com]

Old fashioned fashion changes so fast these days!

[ravenfeather.livejournal.com]

I did that once, went back over a decade to read what I had written, and I didn't even recognize the person who wrote them. It was a surreal experience, and I have not done it again. It was as shock that I had changed so much is what I consider a relatively short time, but it was a GOOD change. Just kind of a shock that is all.

I think it is so much easier to see change in others, or traits in others than it is to see them in ourselves. I understand that, when we have trouble seeing the negative traits in ourselves, it is uncomfortable to acknowledge, but why is it we don't see the good things either? Makes no sense.

[ranunculus.livejournal.com]

Raven, I see HUGE change in you.

[ravenfeather.livejournal.com]

Thanks Ran!