What is legacy, if not an old blog you haven't updated in years, but you still think is important enough to just keep alive and around?
If I cared about the legacy of my old thoughts - which I don't - I would have it stored, framed, designed in a vaulted way. Instead it's just a decaying compilation of digital bytes scattered over some old templates.
And yet.
Looking back, on my old writing, my old thoughts, I'm struck by a few things. Firstly, my writing was messy and jumbled, it had a severe lack of story and flow. Of course, being a blog you embrace the spirit of the blog, and you just write. Lots. And you hope some of it makes sense enough to convey your meaning. But secondly, I think I got a lot of things in the vicinity of something approaching the concept of something good? It's a bit like reading with frustration a book of good ideas that tries it best to hide those ideas in mediocracy. I was never a bad writer, far from it, at times I was pretty good. But, averaged out over time, it was, well, average.
This blog is still my legacy. I just wish I could go back and write it better. But showing your best work require that we can also see your not-best work.
Here's to a new era, which really is a continuation of an old era, both of which aren't eras at all.
