[c00lio]

Took up journaling a few years ago, because I was miserable.

Struggled to do it regularly, frequency dropped off. Less frequent entries meant longer entries, because I tried to keep up with what was happening. Later on I just journaled at important (read: unhappy, difficult) events. Even that dropped off. During all this, journaling just made me more miserable, because I couldn't even do that minor unimportant thing properly.

So from my experience, don't. Just another thing to worry and despair about.

YMMV, of course.

[douglaswlance]

The human mind is the product of a brutal optimization function over a billion years old. That process of optimization has extended into the operation of the human mind itself. The human mind itself is an optimization machine. It can always imagine a better way to do things. Don't let the fact that there is a better way to do a thing stop you from doing the thing. There is always a better way.