Progress?

I’ve re-read my blog posts recently and I had a strong urge to rewrite most of them. Maybe editing a sentence here, change a word there, and “make them sound better”. It is really tempting to do something like that. I don’t want people to see those mistakes, and all the text files are right here.

But before getting to it, I decided against it.

Wouldn’t it be erasing the person I was back when I wrote them? I started the blog to (among other things) get better at writing, so if I go back and edit those early posts, there will be no improvement. No way for me to really compare if there is any improvement at all.

So I hope I keep making mistakes that don’t seem obvious now, but I’ll be tempted to fix in the future. Only then I’ll know I made progress.