I went through the Trash on Google Drive and pCloud, and I found heaps of old PDFs and .txt docs from the past 5+ years. I just made a big folder called "WRITE SHIT" and stored them on Proton Drive and my local machine.
Some of it is ok, most isn't. Some are 30K word "offline" journals, some are short "personal experience essays". One reads like a small dissertation. And a few are poems, haikus.
Silly junk. Writing is not a total waste, but I def am not amused by it any longer. An update? Sure. IRC messages, great! E-mail with friendos, I'm on it! Dribbling about daily thoughts - nah. I'll keep those on my local device (my brain). ;)
later
i wonder about those essays :)
"once upon a time I did stuff, here's some opinions on it", was the gist of most of those. Observations and other slight of text BS. I saved a few, not impressed (with myself) with any of them.
The three journals Ikept are more revealing (and beneficial) for myself. 30K+words each
MyGoodNotes Vol 1. Vol.2
Pi Journals Vol.1 Vol.2
Offline Journal 2020
Joplin/Blog notes
All about the same length. I deleted the BlackBerry Diaries that I had on my BB Classic, but there were two volumes, 30K words each.
I also had The Typewriter Papers Vol.1-4, but I only went back and read Vol.1. It was weird as I was alone in STL when I did those, no Internet for that month (well, Vol.1, anyway) and I was slowing down to an analog-ish city life pace of existence. Thermos coffee in the park, typewriter-ing in the evenings, ducking into the bathroom to smoke some herb, walking to/fro Metrolink/Metrobus and trying to be approachable, friendly. Less phone time. It worked (meaning it made me feel better) but strong Lexapro helped.