Our blogging history

When moving all my old content over to this new blog, I thought about leaving some posts behind.

Partly because some of them no longer feel true to where I am today. And partly because I simply felt they weren’t very good anymore.

It’s a tempting feeling, right? Starting over, a clean slate.

It sounds so nice, but is there any real truth to it? How fresh of a start is it, really?

Whatever we write today is connected to our very first post. The style and the type of content may differ, but it is still a now-take of a then-view. We wouldn’t be here if we hadn’t been there.

But let’s say we decide on a new beginning anyway. Will this be the magic cure that keeps us from starting over again?

Most likely not. Our blogging history is not the problem. The real issue is our idea that the new will wipe clean the old.

It won’t.

It is not in the blog posts. It is in our head.

And honestly, when you think about it, it’s quite rude. Those posts have taken us to this moment. Letter by letter, word by word, sentence by sentence, paragraph by paragraph, post by post.

We should embrace our blogging history, not shy away from it.

“What we do in life echoes in eternity.”

That goes for blog posts too.