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Keeping a journal is nice
| Ah, that's nice to hear! I've tried starting some diaries myself a few times in the past, but I'm far too lazy and inconsistent to actually keep using things like that
| I've been keeping a daily-ish journal since *check notes* 2012. Most of it by typing instead of writing, but I still keep the piles of notebooks I've finished.
I'm not really consistent with it. Sometimes I can go whole weeks without writing anything. And the one time I pushed myself to write daily, I started hating it, so I stopped.
It really is very nice, though, isn't it? Just feels good to unload things into writing.
| Ayy, same here! Though I wouldn't call it a journal or a diary exactly; I mostly write on my notebooks whenever things can get too overwhelming for me. When I feel sad, I let all my feelings out through writing. I also make sonnets on a separate notebook.
The best feeling about doing this is when you look back at the things you've written. You'd tell yourself, "Wow, so this is how I was back then." It really is a satisfying feeling.
| >>703730
Yeah, it's kinda interesting to see how I've changed (or not changed) throughout the year. Sometimes it makes me feel sad though, like when I realise I've been dealing with pretty much the same problems for years with no end in sight.
| >>703730 I like watching my notebook slowly fill up with all the small bits of time I spend working on it. Soon, I'll have filled a whole notebook!
| >>703699
I don't like recording things. I'm the sort of g/u/rl who cringes at Discord messages I made 2 months ago. It's the same deal with diaries and notebooks :(
| >>703964
You don't have to read them again! Just writing them and then throwing them into the void also works.
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| I've been keeping a journal since I got a nice notebook to do it in at the start of the year. I spend about fifteen minutes on it every other day or so. I think it's had a lot of benefits for me; it helps me wind down at night, and it makes each day a little bit more memorable. The best part, though, is how nice it feels to scritch the pen across the page, working quickly to form each loop or bend.