So, did you try the oats? I know you didn’t. But I understand, you needed to gather the ingredients today. Tomorrow tell me how they tasted.

In any case, today I want to have a short talk about journaling. Last year I got into the habit of journaling. And I journaled quite a lot. At some point, I had a streak of more than ninety days.

My main approach was writing the journal as if I were talking to my future heir, who would get to know me using the journal.

The journal had daily entries and special posts (much like this blog). I would write stuff, glue memories (not as much as I would like to), and create lists. I even had a recurrent series where I wrote rules of life I wanted to leave for the journal’s heir.

Why did I stop? Eventually, I found that my daily entries had no content. I was merely talking about habits, not achieving them, new plans to achieve them, and so on, so I felt like I wasn’t really contributing.

Another thing is that, at some point, I started finding the process of writing really cumbersome. I would think of topics to talk about, but thinking about writing everything I had to say put me off to the idea, also because my writing speed can’t keep up with my thinking speed, in contrast with my typing speed.

So the question arises, why not journal using my PC? A great question, but it’s all a matter of vibe. Writting it on a computer loses some of the glamour in my opinion. Furthermore, what would I leave for my heir? A Notion account?

I could do it in this blog. I could, and this would solve my last question ¹, but I think the things I want to write about are too private to be displayed here.

The point is that not writing anything should not be the solution. Let’s see if I make a New Year’s commitment to get back into journaling.

See you tomorrow.