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Vanity Blogging

I often find myself going through my own old blog posts and re-reading them. Occasionally, I find mistakes to fix, or think of a better way to word something, or realize I now have additional insights to add. After all, I do use this blog partially as a way to organize my thoughts (as I mentioned earlier), so it needs to be a living document. And indeed, sometimes it does remind me of something I’d forgotten, or re-clarifies a thought that had become hazy.

But generally, I don’t think this is the real reason I read my own stuff (and this is not the reason it’s been almost a whole week since my last post — I’ll explain that some other time). While I’ll occasionally cringe at something I wrote (and quickly fix whatever’s wrong with it), most of the time I’m generally pretty satisfied with what I’d written, if not outright proud. So I generally get a good amount of enjoyment from the experience.

This is not to say that I spend a lot of time reading my own stuff, especially since I’m a lot more likely to gain insights from reading other people’s stuff. But I wonder if this is a common practice among other bloggers, or whether I’m just unusually vain?

Well if I am, so be it.

On a side note, I’ve made some significant revisions/enhancements to my post, The Message, Not the Messenger. I consider it one of my better works, so I think it’s worth checking out, if my vain self does say so myself.