How do you personally feel about revisiting old (completed) projects?

I am not one of those guys who writes on a story concept and then, regardless of whether or not I finish it, move onto another. I stick to the same universe and just make more stories in it. Because if I were to build another world, it'd just turn out to be the same, with only a couple minor backdrop differences like volcanoes and earthquakes being possible.
With that said, I feel bad about scrapping old characters and concepts mainly because I feel a lot of old stuff has good things in there that are very good and salvageable. It would be a waste of good fruit that I finally produced after trying so hard to find that "ah-hah!" moment. Although, I am not afraid to kill every single one of my characters off.

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Anon, if I were you, and I am in some senses -- pun intended, wink wink -- that would not be a waste of time but a personal goal.
>Can I improve my skills to the point that I can bring new life to old works?
>Can I save Doc1 and be disappointed/frustrated with it, go off to do intense study and practice with other things for a month or two, then come back and create Doc2 with some of Doc1's content?

Funny enough, after a while you end up realizing that all the side projects, practices, and studies you did to get to the skill level you wanted to be with the projects/goals you wanted to do are ultimately the things that make you successful.
>At least, that's how it is when you look at everyone who's where you want to be, anyway.

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if you aren't rewriting and revising, you aren't writing seriously

I can only edit when I have left it alone for two months at least.

Usually I tend to think, in a brief time after some writings, that it is dull and maybe not productive in any situation. So, revisiting some old texts and seeing precious things in it, I'd take a great amount of it to improve my currently projects.

Thing is: if I like what I wrote after few months, it is good to me.