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Appreciation post: the coworker who saw my messy bujo and didn't judge
Last month at my desk in Austin, Sarah glanced at my chaotic weekly spread with scribbles crossing out half the tasks and just said 'that's real life, keep going'. Has anyone else had a stranger or friend validate their imperfect journaling style when you felt like you were doing it wrong?
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troy_adams12d ago
The part nobody talks about is how much a messy journal scares the person keeping it, not the person looking at it. You spend weeks thinking you're the only one whose spreads fall apart by Tuesday, and that shame makes you want to hide the thing or quit it. Then somebody glances over and says that's real life, and suddenly the whole game changes because you realize the mess was never the problem. What Sarah did was give you proof that the standard you were measuring yourself against only existed in your own head. I'd bet the people with the pretty journals are the ones who quit first, because there's nowhere to go once the page is perfect. The messy ones keep going, and that's the whole point.
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