assorted journaling questions
Suf's Burn all my journals if I die and homepage copy inspired me to type out a bunch of questions on the topic:
- How do your physical and digital footprints differ?
- How much more brilliant can your life be if you choose to continue to journal for the rest of it?
- If the worst that the entirety of your life can be treated as is "garbage", how much upside does that leave?
- Are you regularly discovering what loved ones would care about reading from your private thoughts after you're gone?
- How would you want any given person to treat your journals and notebooks once you're gone, let alone specific people?
- How can you get your journals into the hands of people that will consider it more than just "meaningless paraphernalia"?
- Whether you are okay or not with people picking up and reading your journals as it stands, what does that say about the words inside?
- How can you encourage the allocation of accumulated, tangible traces of your entirely private thoughts to readers that can make the best of them?
- How can you benefit from posting more noises that your brain made via more responsive environments? How can you do that without succumbing to addiction?
- How candid are you in your journals? Do you spill the beans on everything, anonymize whatever you can, or even resort to fiction distant from whatever is going on in your life?
- When was the last time you printed out, or otherwise made physical, something writing-focused that you encountered online: a blog post, a news article, a Twitter tweet thread, etc.?
- Whether you believe in an afterlife or not, what are your thoughts and emotions about what happens to your written expression after you pass away? What are they toward people referenced or alluded to in your work? Moreover, what thoughts and emotions do you think they would endure?