read your old posts: you'll see how far you've come!

[Hellenic_Witch]

I joined MW in June 2004, two years ago. This past week, I've searched a lot and read through my previous posts here...a small amount of threads I started, conversations I contributed my two cents to...people I met....and re-reading them all was quite enlightening.

I was at once struck by how far I've come. Reading through posts I started, requests for information, it was quite a trip down memory lane.

I could remember how I felt posting certain things, or what was going on in my life. I can remember my feelings. Or I found posts that I didn't remember at all, and they made me laugh.

But, all in all, I was glad to read those posts...to remember how new I once felt to this path, how grateful I was that those with more experience would take the time to answer me. How thrilled I was to meet others with similar beliefs.
I think it's valuable to look back, to re-assess. My knowledge is grown, and on this site I have a visual record of it.

Thank you, MW family.

[RainInanna]

Sounds like a wonderful experience for you :) I find when I go read over my old posts I can't help but be surprised about how much I thought I knew it all and how much I argued about things that really I wasn't that passionate about. I've come a long way too, thank gods!

[jcldragon]

I've taken old posts I've made at various message boards, and edited them together to create essays, which I've put up on my website. This one, Principles of Light, was put together from posts I made a number of years ago at a different message board over a period of two years.

http://www.jamesclairlewis.com/pages/metaphysics/light.html

[StormVixen]

i read my old posts a couple of months back... it made me realise just how much ive learnt, not just about paganism and stuff in general but also how much confidance ive gained from being able to talk to people about myself without feeling awkward! yay for mysticwicks!

[Cain]

I read mine. I was a jerk and I remain a jerk. No problems there then.

[Arion]

Oh boy, I'm afraid to read my old posts. My thoughts/opinions/beliefs have evolved so rapidly in the past few years. Even recently I can remember posting things I don't necessarily agree with now, it would be strange to see what I was thinking before. I've learned a lot from the people here though, it's such a diverse community here at Mystic Wicks and being exposed to so many different views is very educational indeed.

[Infinite Grey]

Hmmm I was a bit of a goofball then, and I'm still a bit of a goofball now...

[Morrigan_Wolfwind]

Hmm. I'm kind of afraid to read my very first post here--I can still remember how much I rambled on and on, just about my name.

I do seem to have a much more neutral way of posting on the internet, particularly here--I get irritated at things much less often, and my posts certainly aren't as long as they used to be.

[Avalonia]

I do that from time to time, if it's an old thread and I noticed I've posted in it. I was pretty clueless two years ago, and I'm still clueless now. XD However, it really tells me how much my mental state has changed since I was about 17 or so when my own posts look completely alien to me ("That's not me. That definitely isn't me..." *reads poster name* "That's me?!" O_o).

[Dawa Lhamo]

I wouldn't say I've come that far. ^_^ I am *always* embarrassed by old posts. In two months time, I'll look at this post and be embarrassed. ^_^ It's just my way.

[skyler]

Mine make me cringe with discomfort. :twitch:

I realized how much I've changed. In more ways than one.

[Mystika]

i did that once for fun but most my posts are all the same me just playing games in just silly :lol:

[Agaliha]

Every now and then I come across my old posts. It's interesting...I still don't know how I believe some of the stuff I was saying (about the gods). I believed it at the time, but now it seems so weird. Heh.
It does show my changes in my path and beliefs though. :)

[Sequoia]

I joined in 2001, in full bloom of my Teenage Pagan phase. Boy have I grown up since then. No more faeries, psychic warfare, and super duper past lives for me.

What a difference five years makes! :lol:

[Ron]

Ahem. They say there is a fine line between brillant and crazy.

I have to say that while I was crazy, as in mentally distrot, some of my ideas were brilliant. And that's why I'm happy to almost avoid my old posts. lol.

Sometimes I go into a thread that I know I've posted in, and read what I posted... and I feel I used to be a master of the secrets of the universe relatively. And other time I just come out shocked at how out-of-it I truly was.

:awilly: But I'm all for retrospective action.