I've always loved writing.✍️ Not creative writing but writing to express my thoughts, feelings, and experiences using paper and ink (or my laptop or phone in this digital age). I was among the few who enjoyed composition classes in grade school where we were asked to write anything that's within the assigned formal and informal themes. I was also the first among my peers to have my own diary that even had a lock and a key, and I remember getting kilig every time I would write on it.
When I was a teenager, I put my love of writing into good use when someone gave me a book whose pages had a small space at the bottom. That space was where you would write the blessing that you received that day, and after a while I realized the small space was never enough for me. I just thought I had lots of blessings each day!😁 I still remember some of the things I wrote there: Received a call from daddy (who was working abroad); I did well during the class recitation; my Sim got promoted (I used to play The Sims on PC, hehe), et cetera. Even when that book already ran out of pages, I still continued counting and logging my daily blessings on a regular notebook just because. Was it out of habit? Or because it made me happy? I don't know. I also don't remember when and why I stopped.🤔 All I know is that I had never seriously done it again after college. I tried to revive it after Rolly and I got married, but we did it for only a couple of months. I guess the responsibilities of family life and parenthood have taken up all of our time.
This Christmas, I was thrilled to receive a very special present which literally made me shriek (happily) when I saw it on my office desk.😍 It is called The Five-Minute Journal which, according to its creators Alex Ikonn and Uj Ramdas, is the simplest, most effective thing one can do every day to be happier.
