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Few people have the time to sit and write a journal each day. I tried and it became a burden, a dread before bed time. Sleep won out. Journals can also be elec

Few people have the time to sit and write a journal each day. I tried and it became a burden, a dread before bed time. Sleep won out. Journals can also be electively subjective. Yes, a photo can be framed or posed, but it's harder to edit awkward truths out of a photo rather than omitting them from a journal.

billfruit 1y ago
People used to be always ready to scrible down things in the past I think, perhaps in the same way people are eager to take pictures now. Ofcourse one can't know before hand what's worth noting down and what's not, so I guess they would have just scribbled down everything, like when Plato wrote down what Socrates said.
lukan 1y ago
"Few people have the time to sit and write a journal each day." Yet many people seem to have the time to sink in endless time on Netflix, FB, Insta, candycrush or doomscrolling somewhere else.
- iszomer 1y ago
  Have you also noticed that the quality of people's handwriting is inversely proportional to the amount of time spent on these platforms? ( I have no data and I made this up)
card_zero 1y ago
I keep a journal. I write in it when there's something on my mind. I don't force myself to write in it every day, or at all, that would be ludicrous. Sometimes I write in it all of the time. Deep thoughts about life get indiscriminately mixed in with movie reviews, shopping lists and the fact that the name of the guy who unblocked the drains was Nigel. I write more than I read. Sometimes I search it for practical information (what was his name again?) which is why I keep it digital. So if I really want to, I can find out how I was generally feeling in, say, 2006, and what sort of questions were on my mind and what ideas I had. Usually the answers are: pretty much the same, and stupid ones, kind of like today but worse. So it turns out that I don't want to review my journal much. But I only know that I don't want to because I have the option, so it has a reassuring function, and writing helps me think in the first place. When it comes to photos, though, I'm with Ray Davies: People take pictures of the Summer Just in case someone thought they had missed it And to prove that it really existed People take pictures of each other Just to prove that they really existed Don't show me no more, please
prmoustache 1y ago
It is not about having the time but prioritizing this time over something else.

billfruit 1y ago

People used to be always ready to scrible down things in the past I think, perhaps in the same way people are eager to take pictures now. Ofcourse one can't know before hand what's worth noting down and what's not, so I guess they would have just scribbled down everything, like when Plato wrote down what Socrates said.

lukan 1y ago

"Few people have the time to sit and write a journal each day." Yet many people seem to have the time to sink in endless time on Netflix, FB, Insta, candycrush or doomscrolling somewhere else.

iszomer 1y ago
Have you also noticed that the quality of people's handwriting is inversely proportional to the amount of time spent on these platforms? ( I have no data and I made this up)

card_zero 1y ago

I keep a journal. I write in it when there's something on my mind. I don't force myself to write in it every day, or at all, that would be ludicrous. Sometimes I write in it all of the time. Deep thoughts about life get indiscriminately mixed in with movie reviews, shopping lists and the fact that the name of the guy who unblocked the drains was Nigel. I write more than I read. Sometimes I search it for practical information (what was his name again?) which is why I keep it digital. So if I really want to, I can find out how I was generally feeling in, say, 2006, and what sort of questions were on my mind and what ideas I had. Usually the answers are: pretty much the same, and stupid ones, kind of like today but worse. So it turns out that I don't want to review my journal much. But I only know that I don't want to because I have the option, so it has a reassuring function, and writing helps me think in the first place. When it comes to photos, though, I'm with Ray Davies: People take pictures of the Summer Just in case someone thought they had missed it And to prove that it really existed People take pictures of each other Just to prove that they really existed Don't show me no more, please

prmoustache 1y ago

It is not about having the time but prioritizing this time over something else.