"The sun is burning hot again
on the hunter
and the fisherman,
and he's trying to remember when,
but it makes him dizzy."
- Tool "Sweat"
Goodbye Journal?
Restlessness has defeated my tiredness again. Here I sit bleary-eyed and immersed in the music filling my ears through my earphones, cutting out all other sounds. There has been so much going through my head and a pining for a day out of the city. I love the city, don't get me wrong, but there are times when I need to lay upon soil and breath in the fresh air given off by the surrounding folliage. Sometimes I just need a little solitude and quiet to sort out the noise in my heart and head. Even though I am happy with much of what life is giving me these days, I am also overwhelmed.
I'm considering saying farewell to my handwritten journal for good. Time and time again, I come to phases where I just can't write fast enough by hand to keep from being left far behind my thoughts. I haven't written a journal entry by hand in several days. A few entries ago I wrote an entry online, then copied it into my handwritten journal but that proved even more tedious and time consuming than writing by hand then typing up, which is what I usually do. The big difference is that I can type without having to look at screen, so I can keep my eyes on my journal and things go briskly but I can't write by hand without looking at what I'm doing, which means looking back and forth between the screen and the journal over and over and over again since my memory sucks too bad to remember more than a sentence at a time.
Ultimately, why keep a handwritten journal? For those times I want to write an entry when I'm away from my computer a notebook will suffice. Do I just keep at it out of a sense of nostalgia? I've been keeping handwritten journals for almost all of my adult life. Maybe it's time to stop being so old-fashioned.
on the hunter
and the fisherman,
and he's trying to remember when,
but it makes him dizzy."
- Tool "Sweat"
Goodbye Journal?
Restlessness has defeated my tiredness again. Here I sit bleary-eyed and immersed in the music filling my ears through my earphones, cutting out all other sounds. There has been so much going through my head and a pining for a day out of the city. I love the city, don't get me wrong, but there are times when I need to lay upon soil and breath in the fresh air given off by the surrounding folliage. Sometimes I just need a little solitude and quiet to sort out the noise in my heart and head. Even though I am happy with much of what life is giving me these days, I am also overwhelmed.
I'm considering saying farewell to my handwritten journal for good. Time and time again, I come to phases where I just can't write fast enough by hand to keep from being left far behind my thoughts. I haven't written a journal entry by hand in several days. A few entries ago I wrote an entry online, then copied it into my handwritten journal but that proved even more tedious and time consuming than writing by hand then typing up, which is what I usually do. The big difference is that I can type without having to look at screen, so I can keep my eyes on my journal and things go briskly but I can't write by hand without looking at what I'm doing, which means looking back and forth between the screen and the journal over and over and over again since my memory sucks too bad to remember more than a sentence at a time.
Ultimately, why keep a handwritten journal? For those times I want to write an entry when I'm away from my computer a notebook will suffice. Do I just keep at it out of a sense of nostalgia? I've been keeping handwritten journals for almost all of my adult life. Maybe it's time to stop being so old-fashioned.
make sure you back your shit up.
And I tend to agree, writing on paper is a little quaint nowadays it seems.