hello there, friend,
as i wrote this weekend i found the writing helps... it helps to calm my wild mind, which can be so full of ideas and so unfocused. i find myself wanting to do too many things and while it's wonderful to think "all the world is my oyster", it's also maddening, because i can NOT do it all. this, my friend, is so hard for me. sometimes as the day slips by and my idealized dreams for the day dissolve, i feel like i've failed...
i've never consistently written in a journal... i wrote in a diary for much of middle school and high school, but there was no content, really. no reflection. no thoughts or feelings. just an account of the day. in college on a cross-cultural trip to central america, we were required to keep a journal. this was immensely helpful in processing a completely different culture from my own. it was just as important when i returned and became acclimated again to life in the states. later on, i would write to process something big, but the process slipped away eventually.
when i started a 365 project some three years ago, i added a bit of writing as a reflection on the day... and i have enjoyed that process. it's a way to look back through the day with a lens of gratitude and often i am reminded that with each day comes the responsibility to be present and engaged in whatever way possible... and to try and see the good in the day, rather than the bad.
xo,
b
