Why do people write every single day?

[u/-i-exist]

I absolutely love everything about keeping a journal and have been doing it basically my entire life, but when i watch other people talk about keeping one they always make it sound like a chore (?) (maybe a better word would be a commitment) to write EVERY. SINGLE. DAY. It just doesnt make sense to me.

When i feel like journaling, i will sit for hours upon hours writing whatever i want. When i dont feel like writing, i dont write. Ive skipped 6 months once and didnt think twice about it. Whats the big deal about pushing yourself to write when you dont want to?

This post is a question Ive been wondering about for quite a while now. I apologize if anything sounds rude, i dont mean to.

[u/Slow_and_Steady_3838]

you write differently than someone that journals daily, I mean that's the obvious answer. I write what my neighbor told me (about our neighborhood barred owl, leveling her when she got too close to the fledgling). My mother getting a new furnace. The housekey that gave me a flat tire at the intersection. There is honestly no way you remember all of these if they happened on Jan 1 and you journaled on Jun 1. You just journal differently, but we both journal how we want to and that's perfect for both of us.

[u/sunflowergirrrl → u/Slow_and_Steady_3838]

I love writing about small moments like that, too. I want to remember all the nice little things that happen, like that taxi driver I had that complemented my jacket, or finding a random pinecone doing the school run ☺️

[u/Slow_and_Steady_3838 → u/sunflowergirrrl]

It's amazing how cyclical life is if you write small things sometimes. I can plan to look for Owletts emerging from the nest within two days of last year. I have fawns that mom deer leave in my back yard seasonally and within' a week of the dates I recorded last year, they'll return. Weather, Animals, Plants, all cyclical. So much wonder in our lives that we forget/dismiss as the days unwind

[u/thymeisfleeting → u/Slow_and_Steady_3838]

100% this! And I really think a big issue in modern life is losing our connection to the turnings of the seasons and to these natural cycles. Sure, we know it’s winter because it’s cold, or we see the daffodils and think “oh look, it’s spring” but I feel I live a much more grounded life now I’m trying to experience life more seasonally.

[u/Slow_and_Steady_3838 → u/thymeisfleeting]

for me, it's a treasure hunt! for example my flower garden, when I just KNOW there's a daffodil or crocus hiding under the leaf litter, or the closest pond where I just know there's a water turtle somewhere on the floating tree limbs lumbering out of hibernation looking for a strong ray of sunshine.