Monday, November 17, 2014

#MicroblogMondays 12: used to be

Sometimes I think my college-self was way smarter than my post-college, administrator/teacher/wife/mother self. I'll read back through literary analyses that I wrote in college and think, man, that was some good stuff!  Perhaps even better than what I wrote when I was getting my M.Ed.  

I love being in education, but I do miss reveling in literature, seeing what others don't see.  Maybe that's just a gratuitous past time that paved the way to who I am today, but there are days I miss who I used to be, that college-self, able to spend hours discussing T.S. Eliot, measuring my life by coffee spoons.  

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2 comments:

Cristy said...

You know, I have the same thought. The older I get, the more I believe that my younger self was smarter. Certainly quicker with taking in information. I think it has to do with the fact that I had time to devote to those activities. And I often joke (though I'm only half kidding) that if I got more sleep and had a maid/nanny/in-house chef that I would be brilliant!

Lollipop Goldstein said...

As someone who has just spent the last 24 hours combing through old grad school papers, this post spoke volumes to me. I had been feeling a little guilty about looking back. But maybe it's also about appreciating where I am now.