Hey friends. Just something off the top of my head this morning.

I woke up this morning, very free and relaxed having completed all my classes for this year, and said why not throw in something for the good ol’ blog.

As my routine is, I wrote my daily morning gratitude journal entry, and the DayOne app I use reminded me that today marks exactly 6 months of consistent daily journaling.

I’ve never looked at the calendar of the app showing you how many days you’ve written something. But looking at it this morning I saw I have consistently journaled since the 15th of June. This I’ve done either every night before bed, or every morning when I wake up, and it has compounded beautifully.

Amazing features of the app include its integration of audio, video, photos and text, all in one entry. You can record a voice recording of how your day was and your thoughts. You know how sometimes you want to let things out but have no one to talk to, so you talk into your phone. Good thing about it is there is no room for prejudice or mockery from anyone. You are being completely honest with your feelings. Honest with your thoughts and your day. You can also input videos of the day. I recently put in a video of when I went bike riding with friends last week, and now for every year to come the app will remind me, on that date, of that wonderful day in the winding road of Gatundu. For photos it’s pretty obvious, you just attach the photo of the day and one day you’ll actually remember what happened that day and who you spent it with. I’m still using the free plan of the app and so I have liberty of only one photo or media attachment. So I attach only the best photo/video of the day. The calendar view looks so cool when you view all the photos mixed in with the text.

I used to write my entries since childhood in physical hard copy notebooks, but I soon realized I’m too lazy to buy the notebooks or just don’t like how the covers look on most. It also gave me a sense of ‘schoolwork’ sitting down to write. Writing of long days after a long day was so tiring and just not fun at all. Physical journals also tend to get lost or be victims of disasters such as fire. So I cast them off. Ooh but I would be so glad to find my childhood entries. When I was still so innocent.

But ever since I came across this DayOne app in WordPress ads and YouTube ads, I’ve never looked back.

It is a wonderful feeling, having done something so consistently for exactly six months. It’s probably the only thing I’ve done consistently, ever! Other than annoying at least one person everyday since birth.

But it’s definitely a feat for me.

Obviously there are days you don’t want to journal coz of boring days or nothing significant of the day to write about. But I’ve realized everyday is a story, so I write what I can.

Before this gets to an extremely boring and long issue, I’ll not write of the benefits and drawbacks of this journaling thing.

Good cheers!

Reagan..✍🏽