Haikus as a way to log my life
The things I write the most are thoughts, ideas, introspections, because for me is hard to write about my life. It doesn't have to do with the fact of if I publish it or not, generally I can't write about my life even in my private notebook. Every attempt to have a journal hasn't been successful because of this reason, it stays blank most of the time. My life is pretty calm and I don't do a lot of things every day, I usually do the same routine, so I don't see the point of writing about it. At the same time, I find it hard to talk about myself, it takes me a lot of time to figure out how to express what I'm feeling. I only have a couple of pages in my notebook to write the highlights of important days, last year I think I only used about 4 pages, small pages.
I didn't know if this was something I wanted to change, I don't like to force my writing but I did want to be more consistent and don't forget to write to the point of writing only about one day for an entire month. There were months were I didn't wrote anything. I thought then of this idea, write a haiku for every day, sounded fun, write about anything really, use a haiku to express the feeling of the day.
More than a week has passed since I started to do this and I think is going well. Some days I really don't have anything to write about so I'll have to be creative and find the most interesting thing even if is small, that works for me because haikus are short and I can shortly describe a feeling, when in the other way, when I used to try journaling, I'd get lost in the words, the space for words was infinite. With limited syllables I can trick myself to think that writing about the day would be easy. "It will only take a couple of minutes", "write what first comes to your mind", so I'd take the pen and magically write an entry to my log. It's also a fun activity to practice, I'm wishing to improve my haiku writing like this, since as for today, I still have to focus and slowly count the syllables.
I'd recommend this, if like me, someone finds it hard to write about their day.
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