Caution: Do NOT delete!

There are very few things in life that I wholeheartedly regret. I mean sure, there are things where I think afterwards "what on earth was I thinking?", or "wow, I probably could've made a much wiser choice". Here I'm talking about full out, 100%, with everything I have, REGRET the choice that I made. What did I do, you ask? Deleted my blogs.

Some people may think I am just silly for making a deal out of this, but let me explain. My freshman year in college I started a blog on Xanga. Nothing special, just random thoughts, event recaps, etc. My senior year in college, I caught onto the MySpace frenzy, joining and blogging in their blog section. Again, nothing too spectacular, but ramblings of current events, thoughts, and happenings in my life. Well, last fall (October 2006, to be exact) during a "I'm having a bad weekend and am grumpy so am taking it out on everything I own" weekend, I decided to go and delete every blog I'd ever posted on the two sites. Two days later I began to regret it. 14 months later, I am STILL regretting it.

This past summer I was discussing blogs with a great friend of mine and I was telling her how I had once had these two blog sites filled with the inner workings of Jaclyn Muns' mind from 2001-2006 and how in a grumpy moment had deleted those 5 years worth of postings and how nostaligic and remorseful I was about it. Turns out she, too, had a Xanga blog & Myspace blog. We went though some of her postings from the previous few years of her life and laughed, smiled and shared - which made me even MORE upset that I had gotten rid of my own personal (yet very publicized) words.

So, I will close with a few words of advice based on personal experience (which, I have found, are often the most useful): NEVER DELETE YOUR BLOGS! No matter how amateur, silly, rediculous, or uninteresting they may seem to you, one day I can guarentee you will regret it. You will. Trust me. So, just don't do it! Keep them. Cherish them. Continue adding to them. Somewhere down the line you will find yourself sitting with a friend reading through them, reminiscing about those great times in your life where you had taken the time, if only 2 minutes, to sit and track your thoughts. You will appreciate it...and so will your friend.


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