Blog 3: Journaling

More people should get into journaling, but they shouldn't watch youtube/tiktok videos on how to.

I started buying cute notebooks for journaling, I got the cutest pens, the stickers, the stamps, the wax seal, all of it. You know what I never did? Write a damned thing. I was so excited for journaling and making cute entries like I saw in videos, but as soon as I opened the first page, I stared at it for hours. I looked for inspirations, watched more videos, planned so much: how to write the title, the typography, the color, the width, the materials.

After hours, I had a bigger mess in my head and nothing written. The activity for turning off your brain and writing what plagued your mind made me feel more stressed. 

You can find video essays about the "tiktokfication of hobbies". For me, it's mostly wanting to replicate what I see in social media and fearing I don't have the talent for it. 

And guess what? I DON'T. I started writing journals without order, with structures only I could understand and writing in a style so bad it would make my language teachers weep.

It really helps. I have multiple journals, one for personal writing, other for documenting dumb stuff or answering dumb questions, a junk journal, etc. There are some pretty pages I would love to show in my Instagram! But I won't! I know the moment I show it off, I will keep trying to make everything perfect and it will ruin journaling for me again.

Journaling can also help with inside thoughts. Sometimes people run to twitter when their emotions are clouding their judgment, then they regret it and try to delete it, alooking even worst. 

The solution? Journaling. Or talking with a friend. I also have other solution but this is a family friendly blog so I won't mention it. But I promise you there are a million solutions rather than tweeting something dumb and have people doxxing you for it.

Get any notebook (used, old, ugly), take any written utensil you have (pen, pencil, coal, ink) and write whatever is on your mind. The secret to journaling it's to go crazy and have fun.