Do you like reading what you've written?

For most of my life, I’ve hated rereading old stuff. It just embarrasses me. It feels kind of ill-informed and poorly written. I’ve hated it so much, I almost never go back to read anything old.

Lately, though, I’ve been reading some old stuff (only a few years old), and actually enjoying it. Perhaps even more scary, I’ve been learning from it. I wonder if I really wrote it sometimes. I certainly don’t remember writing it that way, although I do remember thinking things of the like.

What are your experiences when you go back and read older stuff? What feelings come up? Why?