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Showerthought: Hit 500 pages in my notebook and it hit weird
I was flipping through my bullet journal last night and counted the pages I'd filled since starting. 500 flat. That's two whole notebooks worth of stuff. Some of them are just dumb lists like books I'll never read or grocery runs. But a lot of them are actual life moments. Arguments with my partner written down to cool off. That one week I tracked every single coffee I drank to prove a point to myself. I didn't even realize I built that much history in there. It's like a time capsule of little things that would've been forgotten. Has anyone else gone back and counted how many pages they actually use in a year?
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margaret_jackson7319d ago
The "evidence of my very consistent failure to commit to a hobby" line got me, @taylor668. I used to think looking back at stuff like that was just depressing or a waste of time. But honestly, seeing all those repeated half-starts and coffee logs in one place made me realize that's just how life actually looks. It's not pretty or productive, it's real. That broken promise to yourself is still part of the story, even if you never hit the gym.
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taylor66819d ago
Does counting a notebook full of half-finished to-do lists and stray doodles of my dog really count as "history," or is it more like evidence of my very consistent failure to commit to a hobby? I hit 300 pages last year and about half of them were just me writing "start working out tomorrow" over and over again. It's wild how much of our lives are made up of the tiny stuff we'd forget otherwise, even if that tiny stuff is mostly coffee logs and broken promises to ourselves.
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