going through old diaries and vacillating between "destroy these, they are so cringe" and "future generations need to understand that keeping a diary is incredibly cringe"
@ingrid I feel like this (keeping a diary being cringe) might be one of those things every new generation must work out for its self in its own way.
@ingrid I have an archive of my entire livejournal and will never ever show it to another person by choice.
@Wolven found a page in...2018?...where I just wrote "corn cobs" in all caps and nothing else, what the hell
@ingrid I don;t know but you were probably right
@ingrid A few years back I thought I might try to port my first blog’s archives over to my current website, just to have everything canonically linked under one domain, I read exactly one half of an old post and immediately noped out of the idea lol
@beep and yet we preserve it lol
@ingrid it is safe and secure in a directory on my computer, and said directory is triple-ringed with salt and various wards
@jgarber lol thank you jason but noooooooooope
@ingrid future generations need to know how cringe your diaries were
@ingrid oh I didn’t know it was cringemas eve
The truth. The bitter truth.
Diaries are like air purifiers, but for self-reflective cringe. We need to express those doubts and ideas to get them out of our mind. Once expressed, they needs to be wrapped up and put away.
help I'm being haunted by the ghosts of cringemas past present and future