21 November 2023

Someone was asking why do people journal thinking it’s obsessing about the past. They then went on to talk about how it can’t change the past etcetera, my first thought is that writing about the future would be fiction, but still journaling about the future can be beneficial. At many times in my life I’ve written about things I want to happen, I’m a big believer in positive affirmations, the world is mind. As for journaling about the past there’s certainly benefits to a person laying out as much information as they can about a past event they’re still struggling with. Often a piece of information will be under others, but we have to go through or disrupt our thoughts to uncover a new path. My blog is not necessarily about the past and I struggle to say what it’s about other than my thoughts. I started writing these sometime around 2017 as I was going through the book The Artist’s Way, that book also started by writing positive affirmations ten times over which was exactly what I needed at the time. Continuing to write now is not about processing my past, writing is a skill or a muscle, I exercised yesterday and I expect that work will improve my future. Continuing to write continues to sharpen the skill and improves the ability to articulate myself. Blogging isn’t the highest form of writing, revisions are essential of quality work, but blogging everyday is in line with my mindset of try to improve by 1% a day. There are several tabs open on my web browser for different writing ideas and hopefully I get to others through out the day. Writing the blog is seen as my minimum maintenance and serves as a warm up, like everything else it can be slow to start until settling in a groove.