We all have completely different filing methods which should, theoretically, work the same.
Dear Saved File,
I tucked you into a folder because I knew it would be a while before I needed you. I had a basic idea of when it would be. I dated you so I could remember when the idea had occurred. It would help me realize its relevance when I needed it again.
Like all things, time got away from me. The months stretched to years. The computer was traded in on the next model but not before I scavenged all my information to live on a sector of the new hard drive. Then, a new computer came. You were moved into a folder called “Ancient Drive”.
Today, as I am occupying my time with digital clean up, I came across a date which seemed totally irrelevant. Nothing whatsoever presents for why the date is memorable. Let’s click it and see what it is.
After a bit of translation, the text springs to life. You take my breath away the way a tornado clears the plain.
The words echo as I read them. I could have written them today. How can that be true? The only constant is change. Am I really just the same today as I was those long years ago?
Perhaps in that insignificant date I found a truth I was not ready to face at the time. I am the rock I seek.
Quietly,
Have you read something you wrote years ago which is still just as relevant now? Can you write a letter a day for a month?
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/ February 16, 2015I cannot answer this question about relevance, although I have come across old writing that surprised me, in a good way.
No, to the second part of the question. :-(.
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Red of M3
/ February 17, 2015I think it is just as fun as flipping through the journal years later. The surprises can be amazing. xxx
Valentine Logar
/ February 17, 2015I have run across things I wrote, like you in ancient files. Some of it causes me to sit and breath through tears, others I simply smile and shake my head.
Some, well some I am starting to share with some fear. Mostly poetry.
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Red of M3
/ February 17, 2015Poetry needs to breathe, like fine wine. Pour a verse. xxx
gigoid
/ February 17, 2015Q1: Yep. I burned the poetry; some of the prose I still use…
Q2: Nope.
The Hopi Elders told us: “We are the ones we have been waiting for.”….
xoxo
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Red of M3
/ February 17, 2015I seriously considered ditching some of the ancient poetry I found. In the end, I have kept all of the old stuff to remind me how much has changed. The Hopi have it right. xxx
Gray Dawster
/ February 17, 2015It’s funny but when I open some of my ancient files I find some rather rubbish writing of mine, of course at the time it was written I must have thought it worth saving but no, some of it is not worth keeping. It’s not always like that though, sometimes an old file is opened and inside is a real treasure, so it is a treat brushing off the cobwebs and delving deeper. You never know there could even be something worth publishing in there somewhere 🙂 lol
Have a very sweet evening Red 🙂
Andro xxxx
Red of M3
/ February 17, 2015I think I feel the same way about the journals. (See my comment to Tess.) I keep some of the old musty things simply to gauge what my writing is like now… and no longer. You should let me look in that ancient folder… xxxx
Gray Dawster
/ February 26, 2015That Ancient Folder…
It has a nice ring to that doesn’t it my dear friend and I am seriously thinking of writing something completely new for you to have a look at. I have some good ideas on how it will all pan out and hopefully it will be good enough for a decent read. It will be dark and bloody with an added twist of the macabre to whet our appetites, now all I need to do is get my ass in gear and write it.
You know I might send you a very old manuscript (not for publication you understand, it is far too ridiculous for that, but it could give you a few chuckles, I know it did me after reviewing it last week, wow did I actually write that rubbish? lol), it’s an old one that has a politics angle, but slapstick in all of its form.
Okay time for me to sign off now and get some of my domestic chores into operation, I do enjoy the house cleaning tasks, hmm… 🙂 lol
Andro xxxx
Red of M3
/ March 15, 2015I would like to read it, although I recall telling you that once upon a dream. Mayhap, you can join the krewe and get in the forum (which will be migrating soonly) and get some encouragement, support and feedback. xxxx
Gray Dawster
/ April 5, 2015If I ever find the time I will do just that my sweet friend 🙂 You know, if I ever do send you the cobwebbed mention I will have to edit to the maximum or you will think it is a dinosaur ready to be slaughtered… lol
There are literally tons of errors in there…
Andro xxx