journaling
Journaling is the art of immortalizing one’s trivial thoughts and tedious daily routines. It promises radical transparency while allowing one to hide the secret diary from all prying eyes. They say writing deepens self-understanding, yet the motivation to continue often escapes like a fish from a net. Billed as growth and tranquility, it secretly becomes a guilt-inducing journey through past embarrassments. Marketed as a mental detox, it ends up chronicling elaborate escapes from reality in the margins. It is the favorite prey of the self-help industry, which uses a single pen to promise life-altering changes.