journal
Hey, people! How are you? Do you cultivate the habit of keeping a diary? (Whether it’s a journal, scrapbook, or other variations that exist.) I have a journal where I make collages, a photo album, and also a diary where I actually write. I started cultivating this habit in December 2024. Since I didn’t know if I would like it, I started my first journal in a sketchbook that I had never used — and I liked it A LOT. For me, it’s something really amazing, because it keeps me off my phone and makes me more creative. It’s always very rewarding to see a page finished and realize that you made that. I finished my journal at the end of 2025 and realized how good it was to have cultivated this habit, because whenever I stop to look at it, I think: my God, did I really live through all of this? And I get kind of thoughtful, you know? In the future, when I have children, they’ll read all of this. A few days ago, my sister started organizing her room and found some little le...