Ways you can document kind or meaningful things you do (e.g. keep a notes jar, take a photo)

Ha. I started a notes jar (it was actually a My Little Pony metal lunchbox….I wonder where it is now 🤔) on January 1st 2020. It was to draw out of in the coming years to bring a smile and hopefully the memory of the good thing that happened that day that I wrote down for posterity. Well, we all know what happened in 2020…so it was abandoned about March. For over a decade, I kept a daily planner. It was a black leather Coach diary, 3″x 5″. They eventually discontinued the refill pages and I hunted replacements in other brands for a few years before eventually giving up. I still have it, but no longer carry it with me. It holds all my passwords scribbled haphazardly among the notes pages, blood pressure readings from a few months in 2016, and birthdays of those who have been important to me at various intervals, and other arcane tidbits.

I reckon pictures are the streamlined way of the modern world, or perhaps video journaling. I sound like such a hick, I see no need to commemorate that. {I thought commemoralize was a word. It is not. In other news, I had to look up hints for Wordle this morning; I think I’m losing it}. Anyway, social media has often been accused of being the highlight reel of lives, and I suppose it is. Nobody wants to read about gloom and doom but misery loves company. I think most people are just attention seekers, one way or another. They don’t feel validated at home and look for approval elsewhere. And I guess some truly are lonely. I think a dog would help most everybody’s attitudes. AND staying off social media. Unless the accounts you follow are like “The Good News Girl” and what have you.

Anyway. I’m putting too much pressure on myself to write, but at the same time, I need to be writing to feel useful. I don’t want to treat this as a journal, not that there’s much to report on the day-to-day, anyway. Hence the prompts. That I’m very much behind on. One day at a time….