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Published: 2014-01-08 04:33:20 +0000 UTC; Views: 21673; Favourites: 959; Downloads: 0
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I just moved and I was going through this old storage box and found a bunch of my old journals. This entry was a few days before I turned 16, so like 8 years ago. So amazing, so embarrassing, so hilarious.Copied the text as it appeared, and added illustrated commentary as a response. There's a lot I could say about this, but I think it's better to just let people have their own associations, when possible!
Edit- Check out the cheat sheet for answers/ some imagery explanations! toerning.deviantart.com/art/Re…
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It's one of the most inspiring things I've ever seen. Thank you for doing it!
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this...this made me weep.
oh well.
thanks for posting this though.
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Aaah this almost ALMOST moved me to tears. It's not half as embarrassing as the things I wrote when I was 16 (seriously, this is some pretty deep stuff for a sixteen year old). I've been keeping diaries since I was 12, it's so much fun to go back and read the oldest entries.
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Dang, I don't even know. Certainly mixed emotions here. Something of nostalgia, humor, and even a little sadness?
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This is really a touching piece of art I say
I can relate to this so much
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I love it! Unfortunately the journal that I wrote when I was 16 was lost/destroyed, but looking back it is fun to see not only how I changed but also how I stayed the same.
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This is wonderful. I'm only going to comment on the topical historic points which make this so much more defined. And when we're talking different lives, definition is everything. Also FUCK Bush for LIFE.
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You were already very wise when you were 16! 
Thanks for sharing such an intimate memory with us <3
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So you still have 12 years to get married and shave your head and many more exciting bits!
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The really important goal of those 2 is accomplished- shaved head. Aww yissss
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Ah, I wish I got how all illustrations relate/reply to the text. Anyway, this is very pleasant to read and look at. It could've gone on forever and I'd still read it.
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Well... did you ever go platinum?
This was a joy to read. (And the visuals are adorable) Thank you for sharing!
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beautiful!
and haha I do often feel a bit embarrassed reading my old journals, perhaps now I'll do as you suggested years ago and think about these writings with perspective on who I was then
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That is fantastic!
The proverbial "Letter to Myself - Age ____"
Anne Shirley of Green Gables wrote one too. Your letter to your self is pretty deep, wildly coherent and amazingly open-eyed. For sixteen. For forty-five. For any age.
Nothing to be embarrassed about there, I don't think. The illustrations just make it all the better.
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Dang. Thats some pretty deep stuff. Props to your younger self for writing this and props to you for drawing it out!
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Beautiful. Such a wonderful thought process and at 16? Very insightful and just… beautiful.
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Wow. This is awesome. I know the feeling. I was cleaning out some things in my room when I went home for Christmas and found a journal from five or six years ago and I was almost ashamed of how embarrassed I was of some of the things I wrote...but at the same time, appreciative of the 'me' that did write it, and extremely glad I'm a new 'me'!
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This is very moving. Obviously a collaboration between two talented - and very closely related - people.
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