Ok, so the title seems a tad too heavy compared to the actual content. However, I had a moment of clarity a while ago (while in the shower) about legacy-building, and how the stuff we leave behind will affect others. It may be something grand like a monument, an amazing architectural feat, or an impressive achievement that would stand the test of time. Looking things on a smaller scale though, you would find that each of us is leaving his or her legacy in our own little seemingly insignificant way.. I'm talking about the stuff everyone puts online..
I won't go into the intellectual and philosophical arguments about one's online presence, but will instead be commenting on my own footprint on the web, particularly this blog.. Looking back at the archives, I apparently started blogging 15 years ago as a way to pass the time during medical school.. I believe I had started out in Blogger before I migrated to multiply, then back again when Multiply decided to sell out and convert itself into a pure online marketplace, which left the casual bloggers and photodumpers out in the cold (remember, this was way before Instagram became really mainstream). I do not remember what content I had there, or if I was able to successfully migrate the entries to Multiply. As such, 2004 will now forever mark the starting point of my official blogging history.
Going back to the theme of this post. When I took a trip down memory lane and viewed the blog posts from the very beginning, I realized that I wasn't really producing much content as I was just using this as kind of a stream of consciousness dump for catharsis. It may have been good for my psyche at the time, but now it all just looks so messy and disorganized. Having said this, it is now my goal to clean up this blog and get rid of all the unnecessary drama or negativity. I won't be altering posts since I still want this blog to be a life chronicle of sorts, but I shall be deleting what I would consider as just background noise which are deemed irrelevant to the overall narrative.
I guess that's all for now. This is gonna take a lot of work. :P
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