Here is one problem of writing. You express something through your medium at a time when these feelings are powerful. And then, over time, the feelings change and the writing stands as little more than a marker, a milestone of where you once were, how you once felt. But the power of words is not to be underestimated. The reader has no idea where the current self and the written self overlap and so, the reader knows only the writing, and not the person. And this can be dangerous.

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