Journal Prompt .003

February 17th

What season of your life would you say you're in now? Are you in spring? Are you in winter? Why?

Journal Entry of the Day

February 24, 2025

What is something that once defined you but no longer does? How do you feel about that change?

I've been in a reading slump for the past week or two, which is particularly frustrating, considering I am in the middle of my most anticipated book of 2025.

It is nowhere near because of the book I'm reading. In fact, if I wasn't reading Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil, I probably wouldn't be reading anything at all right now.

The world has been tough lately (and by the world, I most certainly mean living in the United States), and I recognize there are many places in the world where living is much, much harder. I think that is part of what has made it difficult lately to sit down and read for long periods of time. I feel equally strained and ashamed for feeling this way.

Why am I so anxious about the state of my home country when other places around the world have been experiencing similar, or worse, legislature and governments for years? Am I allowed to feel this way?

Yes, of course I am.

But there is this odd fighting and pulling in my brain where I consistently feel hurt for myself and protective over others who are experiencing worse than me. Perhaps this is unfair to me (it most certainly is). I should be able to allow myself to feel the unease and hurt during this time. But, I also can't let it be the only thing I feel.

So, to make a long story short, I am reading, and I enjoy what I read. But life, under circumstances beyond my control, has taken over, and I haven't been able to put forth the energy I want to read.

My head is heavy, my brain full of white noise, and my limbs are sleepy.

But I hope this reading slump resolves itself soon. Because I surely cannot wait for nearly four years of this chaos to subside.

What are you reading right now?

Journal Entry of the Day

February 23, 2025

If you had the power to, when would you travel back to revisit? What would you try to change, if anything? Why?

Journal Entry of the Day

February 21, 2025

What moment in your life would you pick as your defining moment?—the time of your life that altered the trajectory of your life, who you are, and who you came to be?