I sometimes think I should but then I’m like is my life really that worth documenting?

  • AskewLord@piefed.social
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    4 days ago

    I don’t journal. I think it’s weird.

    It makes sense if you are like, a writer or doing a project around writing. I kept a journal when I was a graduate student, yeah because I was using it as a part of my work.

    Most journalism I’ve seen just is of the self-help variety where people like either confess their secrets to the journal, or just self-praise themselves by over dramatizing basic accomplishments as some sort of heroic thing. It’s weird af. one time i broke up with a girlfriend because her journal she left over my house was full of the most toxic and vile shit, it was disgusting how her inner life and her outer life were completely at odds, but it explained so much to be why she was so unhappy and miserable all the time and so mean to other people randomly.

    also super trippy, i’ve seen people journaling together at a bar, high fiving each other about their ‘self discovery’. but i live in city full of mentally ill people who are very high on their own supply about how amazing they are for like making a sandwich or going on a vacation.

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      4 days ago

      If you read your girlfriends journal without her permission, then she probably is better off without you

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        4 days ago

        it’s ok, she became a nun. she was mentally ill and rather than deal with it she just chose to cloister herself away from the world.