Ideas & Opinions Do you ever cringe over your older posts here?
- Thread starter ChimeraMonster
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My reason is that I never know how my “tone” comes out in my writing. Sometimes I sound annoyed or condescending when I don’t mean to. So I go back and check later in case I need to apologize or clarify what I mean.
In general I try to add tact to every message I get because I know this is something I struggle with. It’s way better now than in the past, so I am making slow progress. Just my thoughts. I would not expect everyone to have the same worries.
In general I try to add tact to every message I get because I know this is something I struggle with. It’s way better now than in the past, so I am making slow progress. Just my thoughts. I would not expect everyone to have the same worries.
When i was a teenager i had another account and was here for a while before i forgot the pass and everything. Man i was cringe.
Even with this same account i joined 4 years ago and i was still cringe. I looed at my posts and i was so overly insecure about my looks. Its not that im fully confident now either, but no im not like that anymore thank god...It was because i was so jobless back in the time. You know, with quarantine and all and the university major which i was doing wasnt rly challanging or anything to keep me busy.
Even with this same account i joined 4 years ago and i was still cringe. I looed at my posts and i was so overly insecure about my looks. Its not that im fully confident now either, but no im not like that anymore thank god...It was because i was so jobless back in the time. You know, with quarantine and all and the university major which i was doing wasnt rly challanging or anything to keep me busy.
I think it's important to remember that we're all (or at least most are) mentally ill here on SF. So our perspectives aren't usually correct when we think of something as stupid. I do too, all the time, but I try to remember that's how I felt at the time and simply let it go rather than dwell on it and put yourself down.
Oh yes, I regret a lot of my past behaviour. The way my past self thought, wrote, and talked to people, including here on SF, is hard to understand now. My first post on this account 8 years ago was titled "Yo whatup whatup whatup"... 
I was overly concerned with my privacy at the time and tried to make people think I'm an American...in the cringiest way. In a thread about...I think it was about what the point of living is if you don't believe in God, I was condescending and oh so proud of my newfound conviction that there's no free will or afterlife. I've written arrogant things and I've been a taker much more than a giver when talking to people on here, not to mention off site. I wish the edit function didn't have a time limit, I would go back years and edit so many posts! So many of my diary entries on here...why did I write that? Why like THAT? I'm glad many of my past internet personas are deleted and forgotten.
Increased self awareness is both a gift and a curse.
I like this perspective. It's possible to look back on these old posts and be happy that we've grown and no longer think like that. The best way to avoid the cringe is to just not read your older posts, because pretty much no one else will. But it's good to remember your past selves and how much you've changed, and why.
I was overly concerned with my privacy at the time and tried to make people think I'm an American...in the cringiest way. In a thread about...I think it was about what the point of living is if you don't believe in God, I was condescending and oh so proud of my newfound conviction that there's no free will or afterlife. I've written arrogant things and I've been a taker much more than a giver when talking to people on here, not to mention off site. I wish the edit function didn't have a time limit, I would go back years and edit so many posts! So many of my diary entries on here...why did I write that? Why like THAT? I'm glad many of my past internet personas are deleted and forgotten.Increased self awareness is both a gift and a curse.
I like this perspective. It's possible to look back on these old posts and be happy that we've grown and no longer think like that. The best way to avoid the cringe is to just not read your older posts, because pretty much no one else will. But it's good to remember your past selves and how much you've changed, and why.
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