It never ceases to amaze me how much progress we make as individuals. Have you ever looked back five years and wondered what the hell you were thinking? How could you be so naive, so stupid? What about the "you" of last year? Last month?
Often I look back at myself and can barely recognize the person that I once was. How could I have thought such thoughts? I often laugh at the naivety of my former self but really, is that not the guiltiest sin of all? The true naivete is in thinking that right now I have arrived at some sort of truth superior to the truths of my past.
So I look back at the things that I said, that I wrote--even on this blog--and sure, I cringe at some of my baseless assumptions, magically-arrived-at conclusions, and wild ideas but I also value them as a testament to the evolution of me. After all, will I not someday view the "me" of now in the same light?
I am not some static politician having to defend ideas that I once had thirty years ago; I am me, an ever evolving, always growing person capable of making mistakes and dedicated to the subjective experience that is life.
Friday, January 22, 2010
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