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[danuv]

Is there really something interesting and worth journaling every day in every person's life? I keep hearing that lately. My great grandmother journals every day supposedly, even if it is just to write about the weather.
My weekend has been busier than I am used to, a bbq on Saturday with a gathering of strangers and my sisters birthday party tonight. However, despite all that business I can't really think of any one bit to write about. Not that it was a boring weekend but I have difficulty thinking of something worthy of picking out.

Today was hot and humid.

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[prettydark.livejournal.com]

i've quoted you in my journal.

[thehangedman.livejournal.com]

I'll take that as a compliment. I had Rainer Maria Rilke in mind while writing that comment:

If your everyday life seems poor, don't blame it; blame yourself; admit to yourself that you are not enough of a poet to call forth its riches; because for the creator there is not poverty and no poor, indifferent place.

I just wish I could do better at that myself some days.

[prettydark.livejournal.com]

see? also lovely, i don't believe i've seen that quote before. have added you as a friend, i hope you don't mind. :)

[thehangedman.livejournal.com]

No, of course I don't mind. Hell, I feel almost as though I should apologize. For all my talk, I haven't been motivated to post anything interesting lately.

And now I will have to go add you, then make lots of comments asking to see everything.

[prettydark.livejournal.com]

no worries, there's nothing quite so procrastination-inducing as feeling the need to perform in one's own journal, i have found in my own life. so most of the posts i make are for myself, even if i often address them to my outside audience.

[thehangedman.livejournal.com]

For me, it's more that I worry about writing well. Not just for others, but for myself. It's like the Rilke quote: I know quite well that if I really try and I feel motivated, I can write much better even if I haven't done much worth writing about. I just can't often push myself to do so. Others reading my posts are only a minor concern to me; I've managed to convince myself that nobody actually reads my journal. Self-deprecating that may be, but it's also less pressure.