u/Circus_Lights

Something that continually gets me down is trying and failing, again and again and again. I always think, "this is it", but it never is. I thought I beat it last time, and the time before that, and the time before that, but each time, I give in. I think, all of the effort that I'm putting in is for nothing, this simply must be too difficult to beat. So what's the point in trying?

The point is that you WILL get there one day. It's like making a stack of toothpicks that reach the moon. One toothpick isn't going to do it, not two, not three, not even three thousand. But everytime you try and fail, you are adding one more toothpick to the stack. That's one more toothpick that you needed to reach your goal.

And, one day, you will place the last one, the one that is stacked on hundreds of thousands of toothpicks that didn't reach the moon, but they were needed so that the final toothpick could.

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u/Circus_Lights — 7 days ago
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I used to journal quite often almost my entire life, but the past few years I have taken very long and frequent brakes. I've also been going through quite a few life changes, and my mental health has not been great. Lately I've been thinking about journaling and how much it used to help me get my thoughts out of my head and organized, and how it helped me move on from topics I had been ruminating on for days or weeks.

It's so hard to pick it up again when I've abandoned it for so long (especially because I feel guilty about abandoning it), but I'm curious, have you tried journaling and has it helped you at all?

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u/Circus_Lights — 15 days ago