And indeed, you should be free to do what you want to do.
So take this blog for example. I love the idea that I'll continue to write posts for two, three, four years to come. And that means that it will become an archive of myself, my thoughts, and my explorations through the written word; and that means that anyone else who will read this will also have access to this archive of myself.
And that makes the me right now worry. What if future-me doesn't think it's an accurate representation? Because people are changing all the time, so obviously, I won't be the same girl I am right now in a few years time. Heck, I even find myself wanting to re-do the entire contents and design of this blog regularly. (I'd even go so far as to say it's a monthly thing.)
But I don't want to delete everything every time I get the urge to 'start anew', or 'fix' old stuff of mine, so I find myself going back to old posts and editing so it makes more sense with how I am now, and not only is that a lot of effort, but it also defeats the point, doesn't it? It's not an archive anymore.
But to me, that's not even the most important part of this dilemma. It's that this idea that I'll regret something I do now in the future puts me off actually doing stuff now. Which is really, really bad.
Really bad. Obviously.
Because that's backwards progress; I'm so worried about how post-progress-me will react to pre-progress-me's stuff that I pre-progress-me doesn't do stuff, which stops progress from happening, so post-progress-me never exists! (I don't know if that made sense, but I'm gonna roll with it.)
So I think — despite how hard it may be — that you need to just do stuff, even if you're sure that you're gonna regret it one day. If you want to do something now, you should do it, because you want to, and that should be enough motivation. The idea of being put off because it won't suit 'future-you' is silly (no matter how much sense it may make).
So I think from now on, I'm not going to be so reserved about what I end up blogging about. If I want to write a post about something, I like to think that I'll just go for it, even if in a year's time, I would never write something like that.
Lesson: don't let yourself put you off, and don't let the future put you off. If you want to do something, that is enough reason to do it. So do it. :)
