Journaling day seven: One week

You’re made it one week! Refelect on what this n ewfound practice of journaling has been like. Have you enjoyed it? Has it been diffucult? Has it been what you expected?

OK- one week down, the rest of life to go.

The journaling thing was one of the “list” items I had floating around my head moreso than written down on paper before taking up the TSL. I’ve thought for a long time that I should be writing, keeping a record of my thoughts, and seeing how my thinking changes and evolves over time.

I never did it. I never seriously put pen to physical or digital paper and kept a journal for any significant amoun of time. For whatever reason, the act of sitting down at a platform and deliberately thinking about thinking never occured. Any attempt at creating a larger narrative or even jotting down random thoughts was relegated to the confines of memory.

So, here I am finally. Writing my (prompted) thoughts down. Doing it for an extended period, and building up a few lines of pure Markness.

I feel good. It remains to be seen if I’ll keep it up. If I’ll maintain the habit of daily or weekly journaling. Most likely, I’ll taper off again after the required prompts are fufilled, and the last 8 weeks are done. But I’d like to keep doing it. I’ll probably never be one to sit down on a regular schedule and just let the thoughts and feelings flow. More likely, I’ll write, if at all, as the spirit moves me. When something gets in my craw, or when I’ve got some really pointed about culture that I’d like to explore, I’ll take up the (digital) pen and write.

Take my very first blog entry on attending the Qawwali concert. It wasn’t prompted by a badge or agon requirement. I just wanted to express something about a particular incident in my life. An attempt to better organize the buzzing going around my head at all hours. It’s also good practice for the articles I’m supposed to be writing at work, so it’s a handy way to practice the skills of organization and crafting a succinct story about a specific topic.

That’s how most of the rest of my blogging/journaling adventure will likely go. Sporatic, but hopefully at least a little higher quality than the average online entry.