I've been going through some stuff I wrote 3-4 years ago and it's bad.

[Great Rumbler]

I'm sure it's not as bad as you think. You shoulda held on to it - it's is your life.

All those embarassing things I did when I was a kid [or, like, yesterday] are my life too, that doesn't necessarily mean that I want to keep remembering them with such vivid clarity.

Nah man, this stuff was bad, irredeemably bad. At best they would only serve to remind me of how far I'd come, but I've already got enough material I'm committed to keeping that will serve that purpose.

But are they way too close to it to really be able to objectively tell? Yeah, most likely.

These weren't stories that I'd spent years and years writing and I hadn't even looked at them in, oh, probably four years at least. Believe me when I say this, reading what I'd written back then was physically painful. They were awful and not just in terms of writing quality, but also just how simple-minded they were.

Most of them were just story outlines anyway, so no big loss.

I've moved on from that, so no need to cling to the past and try to give some sentimental value to something that I'll never revisit.