I just got an interesting glimpse of myself. I've been going through my old posts on several lists, looking for anything I've written that I might want to add to my new essay community, and I ended up looking at some very old posts by myself from when I first entered the community and some posts by other people that talked about how they saw me. It was interesting. I have to say, I don't remember sounding that stupid. My core ideas were more or less ok (with the obvious exceptions) but the way that I expressed a lot of them strikes me as far less mature than I had believed myself to sound at that time. I can only hope that I presently sound to others more in line with how I would like to sound. Time, I am sure, will tell.