things I noticed using a 5-year journal (after a month)

as the title suggested, there are certain things I noticed during the first month of 2022 and some of them are confirmation of the things I have already been doing with my journal as well as my thoughts.

Here is the list in no particular order:

Life is pretty mundane, and its meaning comes from within instead of external matters.

There is not a whole lot to write about unless we go out of our ways looking for ideas.

Our lives are not automatically changing for the better the moment we put our thoughts down on the page; and it certainly is not changing a whole lot if we decided to write 9 words instead of 10.

There should be some forms of "events" that you would have to experience before our thoughts form and materialize itself into words.

Prompts and questions are cool and all, but they work like a coinflip: it lets us know for sure whether or not we want to write about any certain topic, or iust to write about what we have already wanted to.

Some days, our pages would be filled to the very last line; yet some, no words would come out no matter what we do. It is our journal and there will be skip days, and that is okay.

Our thoughts at the moment we penned those words compare to those when we read them again would be greatly differ from one another. Reading those thoughts again might seem cringy if we are not familiar with the activity but it might reveal things we have yet to notice previously.

Our handwriting reveals what we feel more than it should...the amount of pressure put on each letter, the stiffness or fluidity of the line, or just the act of writing in all caps...it shows.

To know these things moving forward is quite a revelation as it is the goal of journaling: to consciously know yourself more and to prevent us wandering aimlessly in our heads. There will be more updates in the future on what I learn from spending time with a 5-year journal, so please stay tune and if you wish to join me, there will be weekly writing prompts for you to do your own idea-coinflip. Thank you for reading and I'll see you in the next one!