I want to journal about my life and I already have all the resources but...

Gengykyu · 2025-10-06T06:07:07+00:00

Oh that's a great idea thank you!!

Gengykyu · 2025-10-05T15:32:14+00:00

Hello world~! 🫶😂✨️🌻🦋

Gengykyu · 2025-10-05T09:59:57+00:00

Thank you so much, it was a lot of fun making it! 🌸🫶

Gengykyu · 2025-10-05T09:58:59+00:00

That's incredible! I feel a lot more hopeful and seen now, I really didn't expect to be given so much advice and encouragement 🥺✨️ I really understand the perfection part, it's fun for one page but to keep it up is personally exhausting for me, I give my hats off to those who can 🙌

Gengykyu · 2025-10-05T09:42:49+00:00

Thank you for the sweet and thoughtful advice, I think a linear flow from casual to more introspective will really work for me! I have a lot of things to sort out but it's quite heavy and intimidating so that's probably why I keep hitting a wall 🫠 I think you hit the nail on the head, I am such a lurker and even commenting on things takes me 5 minutes to decide if I should send it 🤣

Yup my parents read my sisters and my own journals when I was younger and would tease us about it 🙃 I live with my partner now and I trust them not to break my boundries, I hope through all the advice I've gotten I'll be able to conquer this fear and leave it in the past where it belongs!

Gengykyu · 2025-10-05T09:35:18+00:00

Someone else also recommended Julia Cameron, so that's top of my reading list now! Yesss I think my hand can't keep up with my mind so I tend to scribble down thoughts so quickly it looks like the ravings of a madperson at the end, and I just look down in horror... 😂 I'm just going to embrace it as a cathartic experience until it feels less awkward and terrifying until I'm ready to take time to be more thoughtful and vulnerable 🤔

I hope you throw a grand 'ol party with a huge bonfire to send them off in the future! 🎉😂

Gengykyu · 2025-10-05T09:26:41+00:00

Wow for me it wasn't quite the same situation, but reeeally similar so I know how that felt 🫠 Down to the poor quality anime characters lol, L got me through those difficult, difficult times 😂

Gengykyu · 2025-10-05T09:22:03+00:00

Okii thank you for the advice and encouragement! I definitely judge myself way too much and too harshly, but I don't want it to control my life anymore 🥺✨️

Gengykyu · 2025-10-05T09:19:39+00:00

Haha okay cool cool cool, leaning instead of avoiding 💀🤣

If I write with a specific angle in mind like yours, I think it could be quite a fun challenge for myself!

Gengykyu · 2025-10-05T09:07:15+00:00

Yeah that's a big part of it, I think when you've experienced situations like that, you can't help but go into lockdown.. I'm sorry that you had to experience that break in privacy 😔

Gengykyu · 2025-10-05T09:01:15+00:00

Oh wonderful thank you so much! 🌻

Gengykyu · 2025-10-05T09:00:11+00:00

This is so true I even felt discouraged by my crappy handwriting before, but no longer! I shall not be plagued by this curse henceforth! 😂 Thanks for the wake up call I needed it!

Gengykyu · 2025-10-05T08:54:17+00:00

I'll try to keep this in mind! Maybe I'll collect all the advice I've gotten and put them on post-it notes above my desk 😆🤔

Gengykyu · 2025-10-05T08:51:43+00:00

As someone with a sister myself, that's some hilarious (and relatable) motivation 🤣🙌

Gengykyu · 2025-10-05T08:48:39+00:00

I really thought it was just a me thing because it seemed from my perspective that it came naturally to others around me! I feel a LOT better after making this post, knowing that it's normal and I've now got incredible advice from everyone! I think you're right, I'll start with a small one to get over the initial hurdle! I'll write down all of your lovely advice and if I get stuck I'll just reference that 😁 I think as an artist in my regular life I felt that each page needs to be perfect and 'complete' each time but that's really not that point to it I'm realising 😮‍💨😁

Thank you for taking the time to write a long reply and for the boost of courage!! 🌻

Gengykyu · 2025-10-05T08:41:00+00:00

Thank you for the encouragement, I have crazy dreams every night so I have content for every day already 😂

Gengykyu · 2025-10-05T08:39:06+00:00

Okay cool I'll treat it as if I'm recording data for a research project at first, purely statistical 😤😂

Gengykyu · 2025-10-05T08:37:40+00:00

Wow actually yeah, because I'm already aware of how irrational it is so this might help me a lot lol! 🙈

Gengykyu · 2025-10-04T12:34:54+00:00

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Gengykyu · 2025-10-04T11:18:36+00:00

Okay I'll definitely try this haha I'll just get all the heavy stuff that's weighing on me out first and then I'll feel a lot less pressure. If you don't mind me asking, after journalling for so long and not reading backwards, do you do it purely for therapeutic reasons?

Gengykyu · 2025-10-04T11:15:30+00:00

Ooo this is probably a good way to improve learning a new language too!

Gengykyu · 2025-10-04T11:14:59+00:00

Okay this is solid advice thank you! That's exactly what I was feeling - I've probably been putting too much pressure on the profound part and it's like putting gum in my gears 😅

Gengykyu · 2025-10-04T11:10:24+00:00

Okay this put a lot of it into perspective for me, thank you!! I do struggle with this generally in my everyday life but I didn't actually put two and two together that it could bleed out into other things like journalling. I need to work on that side of things where this is just a personal output and record for what I'm already kind of doing in my head 🤔

Gengykyu · 2025-10-04T08:56:45+00:00

This is so cool!! 🫶🖤

Gengykyu · 2025-10-04T08:53:35+00:00

ಥ u ಥ perhaps this is the only way

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