A Different View of It

You know, when I tell you these things I realize that you might not care. Indeed, I suspect you sometimes wonder why I bother, how what I say could possibly seem so important that it needs to be shared.

But these things aren't necessarily for you. And they're not necessarily for me.

I think, when I write these things, what it would be like to have similarly written scraps from William or from Emerson before him or from Robert Louis, or from the fleet captains down the other branch of my family tree. I think how cool it would be to listen to little thoughts they had, thoughts that wouldn't have seemed important at the time and which people might have thought silly at the telling. And I think about how not silly they would have become with the years.

And so, when I tell you these things and you think to yourself what a waste of time they are, I cannot disagree with you now. But I like to think that perhaps those who come after might have a different view of it.

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