"nothing like an old love to get over a new one. Wait a minute..."

[lauralh]

I have a stack of writings in my room, mostly from college. One envelope was from my creative writing course senior year, and one was from the required freshman writing course; both contained all the writings I was forced to do over the semester.

Except the one that I thought was the freshman writings was ACTUALLY my journals up till, um, I stopped, around 1995 (second semester of 12th grade). And from what I can tell, it's all about boys. Crushes and unrequited lust and first loves and "friends with benefits." And that's the less inane parts. There's also some general teen angst and such. And then there's the just "Went to mall with mom. Bought pants" entries.

This will make for some painful reading.

Comments

[hotcrab.livejournal.com]

ooh
you've got pants

[ex-agentcoo.livejournal.com]

Heh. Don't do it! Reading my old journals always makes me feel like an annoying superficial jackass.

I have journals dating back to when I was 14 or 15. Full of anger towards my Mom, stupidly enthusiastic love of Boyz II Men and other Top 40 music, wholesale angst, and fear, uncertainty, and doubt about girls I was infatuated with. I even have a thick stack of letters from my first girlfriend that I'll never throw out. The things we wrote about were laughable.

- Cooper

[herbaliser.livejournal.com]

Well, basically I just want to reassure myself that I'm a better person than I was then. Or at least a less depressed person. :)

[buckylea.livejournal.com]

hmm. it all sounds very familiar.

[ex-foible.livejournal.com]

i like reading old journals. i find it interesting to see what things have changed, yet what things remain the same. and i get a sense of comfort from reading about things which seemed like overwhelming imbroglios at the time. now, all those things have faded into obscurity. my future self will doubtless look back at the problems of today in the same way. hopefully.