I'm grateful for unsaved work!
Unsaved work, when something happens, often gets lost and ends up being unretrievable. That being said, the motivation or meaning of those paragraphs is remembered by the author. And those few extra moments to consider and ruminate on the intended message will, more often than not, lead to a better finished product.
This is something I wish I had fully understood when attending elementary and high school. As I've mentioned before, in my youth my motto when it came to schooling was, if it didn't get done in class it didn't get done. This worked for me, and I still came through the other end of that part of my educational career having done quite well. I actually believed that additional editing wouldn't bring any added value, and so there was no point to do anything beyond what was completed in class. But, based on this gratitude post and what I'm seeing because of it, I think if I had learned the value of a bit more time to consider and re-hash what I was trying to say in my mind I could have done better, and would have been better prepared for University and my working career.
However, I'm actually learning it fully while working on a blog and considering my lost blog post and the rewritten version. Not what I would have expected growing up, but a wonderful reversal!
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