I've never wrote a diary in my life. Even when I was in primary school I didn't have the heart to put to paper what was happening on my days.
This would due for my elephantine memory. But this doesn't mean that I don't write what I remember since I was three years young.
I write my memories as soon as they surge the my brain.
2013 was the year I retired from what you know as the Bureau of the Census and from teaching Statistics at the Catholic University Damaso Antonio Larrañaga (UCUDAL.)
Not later than a month I was beginning to write my memories. Some of them short, others long.
Obviously, I meditate about what went wrong and what I should have done instead, and what went straight because I had time to study the problem.
I was the same way for a long time! Don’t regret the entries you didn’t write. You could always just start writing down everything you can remember. I forget who did this, but it became a life project that had a profound impact.
I wrote a post called “3 Things” where I talk a bit about one daily journaling method I use. It might be helpful, if you’d like to cultivate a risky journaling practice. It helps eliminate the “what should I write” problem:
I've kept a paper journal since about 1990, every once in a while I'll dig out an old one and see what was going on on the same day. I also keep health notes in a lot of them, especially the last8+ years, again to just track and compare. Yearly, I do goals (used to, don't do them the same way anymore, and I'll find old files on the computer, and yes, they have stayed pretty consistent over the years, and I'll try tweaking this, or removing that, and there have been little shifts over time. But I think it's a lot like building an ant hill (as an ant). Someone steps on it and you have to rebuild, it rains and/or floods and you have to rebuild. You put something on the top, now that you are out of the underground, and an entire side slides down in an avalanche of intentions. But, you keep building, one grain of sand at a time. And as I haven't figured out how to do those cool termite hills that are multi-feet high...I guess I'll keep up with the same-o, same-o, with a helping of hope on the side.
Well, no ant truly builds an ant hill by themselves, there is always a lot of other support. And with ant hills most of the work goes on underground, out of sight, just like "overnight success". And have you ever seen the size of some of those southwestern red ant hills? The may not be super tall but they are WIDE!
But, no, I don't usually compare myself to an ant...it was just the comparison that jumped into my brain today. lol
I've never wrote a diary in my life. Even when I was in primary school I didn't have the heart to put to paper what was happening on my days.
This would due for my elephantine memory. But this doesn't mean that I don't write what I remember since I was three years young.
I write my memories as soon as they surge the my brain.
2013 was the year I retired from what you know as the Bureau of the Census and from teaching Statistics at the Catholic University Damaso Antonio Larrañaga (UCUDAL.)
Not later than a month I was beginning to write my memories. Some of them short, others long.
Obviously, I meditate about what went wrong and what I should have done instead, and what went straight because I had time to study the problem.
Thank you for your full interesting thoughts.
Monica Beltrami, Montevideo, Uruguay.
I think you owe it to the world to make sure all those memories get recorded!
I couldn't even count how many times I'd started journaling daily, only to miss a day. Then I miss a week, a month, or stop altogether.
The worst part is that even though I know it would be helpful, I simply can't do it. Something else always comes up requiring my attention.
Now, I only write an entry sporadically. It’ll have to do.
I admire those who religiously keep a journal.
When I think of all the memories and life experiences I could have recorded, all lost in time over my 64 years,
At least I have posts like yours to comfort me in my dotage🙏
I was the same way for a long time! Don’t regret the entries you didn’t write. You could always just start writing down everything you can remember. I forget who did this, but it became a life project that had a profound impact.
I wrote a post called “3 Things” where I talk a bit about one daily journaling method I use. It might be helpful, if you’d like to cultivate a risky journaling practice. It helps eliminate the “what should I write” problem:
https://open.substack.com/pub/kevintumlinson/p/3-things?r=2efv2e&utm_medium=ios
Thanks Kevin, I’ll give this a try. After all, I can manage that for 30 days. I’ll let you know how it went next month 🙏👍
I've kept a paper journal since about 1990, every once in a while I'll dig out an old one and see what was going on on the same day. I also keep health notes in a lot of them, especially the last8+ years, again to just track and compare. Yearly, I do goals (used to, don't do them the same way anymore, and I'll find old files on the computer, and yes, they have stayed pretty consistent over the years, and I'll try tweaking this, or removing that, and there have been little shifts over time. But I think it's a lot like building an ant hill (as an ant). Someone steps on it and you have to rebuild, it rains and/or floods and you have to rebuild. You put something on the top, now that you are out of the underground, and an entire side slides down in an avalanche of intentions. But, you keep building, one grain of sand at a time. And as I haven't figured out how to do those cool termite hills that are multi-feet high...I guess I'll keep up with the same-o, same-o, with a helping of hope on the side.
Building ant hills sounds like an interesting life philosophy.
Well, no ant truly builds an ant hill by themselves, there is always a lot of other support. And with ant hills most of the work goes on underground, out of sight, just like "overnight success". And have you ever seen the size of some of those southwestern red ant hills? The may not be super tall but they are WIDE!
But, no, I don't usually compare myself to an ant...it was just the comparison that jumped into my brain today. lol