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@ChrisStapley

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Chris @ChrisStapley4/8/2023, 4:08 PM

Just realized I've accidentally taken up journaling

There's a post I've been kicking around in my drafts for a while, titled 'Not posting is the new posting', about how nice a time I've been having typing up posts and then either leaving them in my drafts forever or just flat-out deleting them. I did this on twitter for years, and now I've been doing it here, too. I rambled on in this draft for a while about how nice it is to just write down your thoughts somewhere, get them all sorted out, and then Not Subject Anyone to them.

The realization has just hit me that what I'm doing is literally just journaling, and not only is that not particularly interesting, I've also been doing it in what might be the dumbest possible way

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Chris @ChrisStapley4/8/2023, 4:13 PM

On Twitter, I used to feel guilty about doing this because I thought I was holding too much of myself back. Like, I was stopping myself from talking about stuff that I wanted about because I was too scared of what other people might think about it. While this was true to an extent, I later realized that a lot of it was actually just my brain going 'people don't need to see this', instead of 'people don't want to see this'. I'm glad I've opened up more on here compared to how I was on twitter but not every thought I have needs to be public.

Chimerelda E. Error, layabout @chimerror4/8/2023, 6:14 PM

I mean if it works to get you journalling (and that's what you want) then hey, it works. I had a great realization recently that by far the only successful diary I've ever kept was my social media posts and while it's not ideal, it _works _.

Chris @ChrisStapley4/8/2023, 7:05 PM

yeah, whatever works! When I said I was journaling in the dumbest possible way, I meant like "It is very funny that I am doing it in this specific and roundabout way and also that I've been doing it unintentionally," not "This is a bad and wrong way of doing this and I should probably be doing something else"

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