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This week theme: What’s worth journaling?
I regularly read on the Reddit journaling sub—no doubt we will soon be able to read as much interesting conversations right here, in our own Lemmy journaling community ;)—people complaining that they don’t have an interesting enough life to write about it.
Neither is mine. And That’s fine. For me, events don’t matter much, it’s how they impact me and how I perceive them.
What about you? (I will share some details about my uneventful journal in the comments).
Like promised here is a fw more infos on my fascinating daily live and journal ;)
I did not walk on the Moon, I never sailed the 7 seas hunting for hidden treasures, did not invent a cure against cancer or to cure the world pandemic of absolute dumbfuckery that's raging. I also did not redo the 1812 Bérézina campaign either—don’t look too far, I just read Sylvain Tesson’s Bérézina in which he retells how with a few friends, during a winter, on their motorcycles they kind of reenacted the terrible 1812 Napoleonic army retreat from Moscou to Paris, fleeing, even more so than the Russian army, the atrocious Russian winter.
My daily live is made of little routines, meeting not that many people. But I still keep a journal and have been doing so, with some pauses, for the last 40 to 45 years.
Like I said in the introductory post, what matters is what’s going in my head not the size or the bright colors of whatever I write about. I will write about Trump acting like a dick with Zelensky (where I see that coming from and what I see coming out of it), as I will write about the weather or about that odd looking brick sticking out of the wall of some house on one random street I passed through that same day. Anything. Here is a sketch I made of birds footprints in freshly poured concrete, with people passing by, last June:
And that amazing sketch, in which there is not even a hint of playful colors, with another sentence mentioning we were expecting to receive our new bed-frame, is the sole entry for that day. I don’t mind my journal being uninteresting to anyone but me. Why should I? It’s my journal.
Would it be more exciting to sketch, say, my moon boot leaving the first ever footprint left by mankind on the surface of the Moon or, I don't know, explain in a few paragraphs how I resolved Ukraine's war by forcing all the involved leaders to fight themselves, not by using interposed armies, fully naked save for a few feathers stuck in their ass and the diving fins they would be required to wear? Maybe ;)