How'd I end up back here, anyway?

[dreamingpixels]

Yeah, I know - up until last night, I hadn't written an entry in here in over four years. Why come back? Clearly writing in here wasn't much of a priority, was it?

Well, I was feeling pretty nostalgic for the days when I was on LiveJournal, where I not only wrote about my life, but I made friends too. It was nice - so nice that I actually almost signed up for a new LiveJournal account last night.

But then I remembered that LJ is run by the Russians, and I had this perfectly serviceable Dreamwidth account with so freakin' much posting history in it, thanks to DW being able to import posts from other journal hosting sites. (Although dang, a lot of the early stuff I wrote makes me cringe so hard. I was so young and stupid.) So, thanks to some nostalgia last night, here I am, rambling about coming back to DW when I really should be doing work.

This is one of the many reasons I'm not terribly thrilled with my extended work-at-home period - there are way too many opportunities to slack off. (That's a ramble for another post, though.)

Comments

[featherheather]

I hear you on the old material making you cringe. I deleted my previous journal on here because it was full of crap I was working through during my divorce, and reading it now just makes me sad for the person I was before. It was just too much.

I do the same with paper journals. After I fill them up, I burn them. Most of the time it is working through something crazy in my head anyway, not a log of events that might be interesting to one of my kids later in life.

I too am indefinitely working from home. My kids will be distance learning until December when I will have the option to return them to school, which I have a lot of mixed feelings about.

[dreamingpixels]

Part of me thinks I should just take everything in here from before I moved to Indiana back in 2011 and make it completely private - there's some stuff I don't mind looking at, and sometimes when I'm feeling down on myself I can come back here and look at how I was in my early 20s and say "oh god, I have come SO FAR since then", heh.

With working at home, I can't imagine what it's like having to work at home and keep kids on track with remote learning during all this. I'm struggling a lot myself lately, and I don't know how I'd manage things if I did have kids.

[ranawinter]

I returned this year too, I have found it's been incredibly theraputic to have somewhere to write my thoughts. You can't really do it in the same vein on facebook etc. Dreamwidth (and previously LJ) are so unique in that the people who use them are writing for themselves, and not to build a following or become an influencer.

[dreamingpixels]

Exactly! I mean, it's great if people share their thoughts on my rambles, but mainly, I'm writing for myself - and if I make friends in the process, then that's a bonus.

[ranawinter]

I much prefer finding friends this way, as you get to know people properly rather than a filtered version. It's much more real.. even though most of us remain quite anonymous, it still feels more genuine than say instagram or etc

[dreamingpixels]

Oh, definitely. I censor myself a lot less than I would on, say, Facebook. (On Facebook, pretty much the only things I post anymore are cat photos and LARP photos.)

[stellar_dust]

I came back to DW almost two years ago. Keeping up with posting has been .. sporadic and a struggle, heh! I do manage to keep up with my reading list most of the time, though.

Welcome back, and I definitely hear you on working from home!

[dreamingpixels]

The last time I came back from a DW hiatus, I think I maybe managed one post before disappearing for four years, haha. I'm pretty sure I'm going to stick around longer this time, though!

[wistfulbreaths]

Hah! This is how I ended up back on here as well, well wanting to revisit writing again and making friends.