A week (or more) ago I had written up another entry about my bike tour, and it was one of the longer entries. Then I hit the submit button and it was eaten on transit, never to be seen again.
I do not do well when a “brain dump” of information is lost; it is really hard for me to just duplicate it. So, although I am certainly busy, the reason I’ve been absent from writing about it is because I need to go back and re-do my writing about that day. It’s so demoralizing that it’s tough to just pick up and do it again. It would be like telling a great story, unrehearsed, and having it received well by the audience; then someone comes along late, hears the enjoyment of the audience and wishes to hear the story for themselves. For me that just doesn’t work – it was spontaneous and to re-create it feels fake.
So, I’ve kind of had to let the memory of what I wrote fade away so that when I write it up again it’s spontaneous and not an attempt at recreating what I wrote the first time. I still have my notes, the photos and the memories. Just the re-telling of the story will be different; the parts will all be there.
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I didn’t really need that much pushing, either.
