What if you don’t write a journal?
Okayy! At least since the time I started to familiarize myself with journaling, the thought of it and how cool the journal book looks on my desk has always enticed me. The thought of being this girl who has all the atheistic things on her desk and is very organized in her life is what I craved.
But the journal is more than just a pretty face lying on your table, it is also a serious commitment you make to yourself because writing a journal is not as easy as it seems. It’s a persistent effort to dedicate time and energy every day and write down your thoughts and feelings.
Is it worth it? Or like the title says, “What if you don’t write a journal?”
There are still thousands or perhaps even more people who don’t journal every day like most of them in my family. They don’t feel the need to jot down their thoughts every day or organize the day in the first half an hour of the day.
So that brings us to a question again, “They lived their lives without all this clean-the-clutter nonsense, so do we need this?”
Hmm, interesting question.
Honestly, for the longest time since I picked up journaling, I just abandoned it midway most of the time, and every year I think I should journal but my efforts have gone in vain because neither I could be consistent nor had the patience to write down what I thought every day. I was also under the impression that all the contents I write down in my journal had to be read-worthy. There cannot be grammatical mistakes, it should be articulative, modern, and interesting.
What am I writing an essay for my school competition?!
As time passed and upon making humongous mistakes, I realized that it is your journal. Just like your thoughts, you don’t filter your thoughts, you don’t want your thoughts to be filtered, articulative, and grammatically correct, your journal need not be all those things too. But then circling back to the initial question on which we started this whole blog, what if you don’t write a journal? This question can be asked about pretty much 50% of the things we do in life and I’m sure we’d be absolutely fine if we don’t do those 50% of things and we’d be better off if we didn’t do 30% of the things out of 50% of those things. Too much percentage? I know.
Well, you can or cannot! You can write down your thoughts every day and have an organized day or roam like a hippie who has nothing organized or in other words YOLO (like how these pesky GenZs would say).
So, if you don’t start writing a journal you wouldn’t have an organized day, which will make your entire day chaotic, there would be no prioritization in order, you will miss half of your things to do in the job, your boss will be unhappy, he will put your performance in review, which will make you lose your job and then you will land up in poverty, no food, no house and eventually after unable to repay a whole amount of debt, you will die!! Uggggh (sigh).
Do you really want all this to happen? Really, do you want all this?
Jokes apart.
I read somewhere that your mind is designed to do things, not to remember things. So if you spend most of your time and energy remembering the things to do, when are you going to do these things!!
Thanks to the technology today, we have apps, bots, etc (end of thinking capacity) to jot down a lot of things and they will help us remember and do things.
I have two apps on my phone and set up constant reminders about my meetings and even the tiniest things on my schedule (like laundry) so that I don’t forget and have a decompressed day.
It has been helpful to me because at the end of the day if I retrospect the things I have done on that day, it would have been productive either professionally or personally.
I like to journal. It’s one of the first few activities of my day and it helps me declutter the mind. It is something we think we don’t need but we start doing it, and suddenly we need it.
So finally, if you have started journaling after this and found it helpful ping me and buy me a coffee because bitch, I just changed your life!!
Happy Journalling
Bhavna Haritsa.
