I have been blogging since before blogging was a thing. I mean, I guess it was, but back in 2006, I posted in a journal on a fitness-related message board and it was pretty much exactly like a blog, except without as many pictures. So anyway, somehow I found one of these old journals today and have spent the past hour or so reading it. It was about my marathon training, back in the end of 2006 and beginning of 2007.
It’s just funny to read what you’ve written almost six years ago. Some of it I remember clearly and some of it, I have no idea what I was talking about. But mostly, it sort of reminded me that although I’m a little calmer and more mature (I’d like to think) now, in many ways, I’m exactly the same at 34 as I was at 28. Obviously, my life is completely different. I am married (I didn’t even meet Jason until the middle of 2007), I have a different job, I have a dog, I have a house, things like that are different. But reading what I’d wrote six years ago, well, it still sounded like me.
Also, in the one rare picture that I did post (of the marathon), I noticed that I still have and wear those running pants. See, some things really don’t change. (And that was just some guy that I was chatting with; I didn’t know him, but I distinctly remember he was chugging Red Bull the entire time. Bleh.)
Do you ever go back and read old blogs or journals if you had them? While it’s kind of fun to read stuff from 5, 6, or 7 years ago, I think the stuff that I wrote about in high school, college and a little bit post-college is pretty cringe-worthy.
I started blogging in 2007 and I do go back and look/read things. Sometimes I wonder why I blog, but then I think about all the memories I have and all the connections I’ve made. In a lot of ways, blogging has helped me find who I am now!
It would be interesting for me to go back and read some old journals and posts from when I posted on the Oxygen Magazine forum. I wonder how different they would be because I feel SO different from that time. We’re still the same in so many ways though even as we get older. How fun would it be if we had frequented the same forum back then?!
I’m sure I’ve told you this before but it was the Shape forums. I think they were “rivals.” Haha!
I mean, the one that I posted in was the Shape Magazine forum.
yay old shaper buds!!
I think that is one of the coolest things about blogging- being able to look back at your point of view at that time. I started blogging in 2009 but had been reading personal finance and law school type blogs since 2005. I stopped reading those in favor of healthy living blogs
I am so glad I don’t have most of what I wrote in college… everything SUCH a big deal. I don’t know how I didn’t stay in the fetal position. LOL!
Sad story: I still have underwear that I had in college. I have gym shorts from high school. No joke.
haha most of my sports bras are from high school! Need to throw those out… (kinda like the tuna…) Apparently I hoard old stuff?
Ha, that’s kind of neat — I wish I had a journal or something to look back on to see how I’ve changed/stayed the same and what ways I have grown and things like that. I think that’s why I like blogging, because it gives me that history I’d never have to reference again in written form, ya know?
I once found my high school journal and was delighted to read how I thought when I was 16 years old.
That’s so interesting. I know for me, I would be completely different now (writing and where I am in life!) than 6 years ago….6 years ago, I was married and as you know, the story from there went every which way! My writing style though, has changed too. But I think that’s what I love so much, it evolves.
I was just talking to Tom last night about how I have no idea where my old journals are. It’s pretty terrifying.
I didn’t think about fitness journals as a blog, but I did that for years on a triathlon website. I’ll have to go back and read my ramblings now!
Haha my old writing was definitely cringe worthy too! Sometimes my writing *now* is still cringe worthy… Oh well! I think it says a lot about your character that you’ve remained true to yourself and who you are over all those years. Pretty neat.
I read my old journals and they crack me up. Yet, it’s me. Thank goodness for living and learning.
I never deactivated my Livejournal, and I think it’s still out there. I guess that was my first “blog!” I posted on it during my senior year of college and the year or two after. I need to go see if I can find it- I bet it would be hilarious (it’s been 10 years since I graduated college!)