Accepting Pasts, Changing Futures

I have the urge, after almost every posting, to revise. I resist, haven't done it yet, but boy, am I sorely tempted.

Making it Real: Special Edition ? No. (It took the strength two people to hold me in place from doing it...)

If there is any value to anyone else in anything I've written here, or will write, even one sentence (Hey, this just a what-if ... value is a subjective, individual decision) but if there is, someone, somewhere may want to go back to it, or refer to it. So it stays, for now.

There is more value to the creative to move forward. Let go the last work, release, forget about it an move on to the next.

When one is learning, it's inevitable to look back on past works, and regret what it could have been. It's natural and common. The painful contrast between what we know know, and what we didn't know then. Painful, only if we move to change it. Can't. Understand, accept, continue forward.

This is a different thing than Director's Cuts or Special Editions -- works that were compromised from the original intent.

So, if you want to go back and change something, because you know more now, don't. Can't. And, if you could, there are some theoretical physics posit that a changed past event simply continues into another future. You wouldn't have changed the future, you would have simply added another one.  But this isn't a venue for that kinda deep stuff, and it's hard to follow this part of my day.

If you do look back to past works, which you are allowed to do from time to time, be proud you did the best you could do at that moment.

If You didn't do your effortful best?

Well, all's not lost.

Because you can change that.