Thinking About What to Share
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- Yvette Young —
pt ii: run steadfast towards the unknown
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- Yunnan tea
This is one of the more blog-y posts — as before, I initially was thinking about sharing something specific, but then I am struggling with a few blocks around what and how I want to share it.
When I enjoy something, I often want to share my enjoyment. But I am not the best at describing things I enjoy! I can describe some CSS technique, but I always struggle with finding words about why I love something. Not enough practice, I guess?
One example — video games. I do not play that often. I have specific tastes over what I like to spend my time with. Over time, I gathered a list of things I’d want to recommend, or point at as something I liked, or something that I grew up with and have fond memories of.
Looking at how people write about things, very often they introduce ratings and other very precise ways of gauging how they rank something. I am sure this is not the way I’d want to go with.
I don’t want to pretend to be objective and compare things. But I know how something impacted me, and maybe, if anything, that’s what needs to be conveyed.
So far, my thinking led to me to three categories that I think could be enough to split everything I’d want to share onto:
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Things that I am in love with, those that fascinated me, that I still think about a lot, and which I would be happy if you would try if they sound interesting.
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Things that I enjoyed. But, for one reason or another, they did not touch me in the same way as the works in the previous category did. I was still happy with them, and will recommend to others, and will be happy to dicuss — and maybe with someone else they could click much better.
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Things that I have a fond memory of. I am not young! Lol! And I played, watched, and read a lot ten, twenty, thirty years ago. And — my memory is not the best!
I often remember the feelings and ideas I had, and I could have a warm feeling when thinking about something that touched me somewhere in the past, but I might not remember what exactly did so, or if there was anything that won’t pass my evolved filters.
I don’t believe in the “The Death of the Author” to the same extent some people do, where they decide to preserve their bright memories of something even when by today’s standards something there — or the author themselves — could be problematic. I am totally fine throwing such thing into trash, and go in the search of something else.
That said, I am not omniscient, and I don’t have infinite time, so there could be things that I like and have fond memories of right now, where I do not know that they do not pass my standards. And I could’ve experienced them long enough to not remember the details.
Such things will go into this third category — maybe I will one day revisit them, and either exclude fully, or move into one of the two previous categories.
That’s it! No more categories. If I did not like something enough to recommend or remember fondly, I’d rather not mention it at all. I have no desire to share any negativity or ambivalency, and I find it to be a noise, at least when coming from me. So I won’t!
Aside from these categories that I want to follow, I also want to work out the structure of what exactly I would share for each work, but that will be a problem for a future me.