my public journal
I’ve been thinking a lot about what I want to write about on this blog. My last attempt at this was a mixed one. I focused on ‘self-help’ content to help improve people lives, but it never felt right. I felt like a fake ‘guru’ trying to look wise by teaching people life lessons that I didn’t even fully understand.
Since then, I've stopped sharing my writing publicly, and I moved my writing to my private journal. I fill around 200 pages a year, mainly by asking myself questions like: Why did I do this action? Why did I think this? What do I actually feel about this and why? Is this what I want?
It’s in these private entries that I learn things about myself. A lot of things.
And I think I’m now finally ready to share these learnings with the world. When I write here, it feels like I’m writing to a younger version of myself. Having a conversation with him. Feeling his pains. Feeling his struggles. But also having the hindsight to give him some advice too.
And to be honest, I think that's the only thing I'm qualified to write about. I can't give specific advice to anyone because I don't know them. We're all unique, so it's impossible to tell anyone what to do. All I can do is explain how I did it in the past, and what lessons I learnt.
So that’s it. I’m going to treat this blog like my public journal - mainly writing about things I've learnt through my life experience. Not stealing ideas from a book I read or a video I just watched, but learnings from my own life.