It’s in the details
Journaling small moments to create a big picture.
Image: Ruby Waters
Journaling is something that has found it’s way in and out of my life over the last few years. It’s something that I have promised to make a daily ritual but has often just been left forgotten about.
The excuses of ‘I’m too tired’, ‘I don’t have anything to write’, or ‘I just simply can be bothered tonight’ seem to show their faces. I always thought of it as a way to write about the big things in my day or the goals I am working towards, which is probably why a certain kind of boredom crept in after sticking to the broken promise for just one week. The journaling has never been the problem, but maybe my perspective of what to write about is.
“And it got me thinking…”
I was listening to an Olivia Neil podcast during a deep clean of my room yesterday, where she discussed how, and what she journalled, and it shifted every thought I had gathered previously on this hobby. Rather than recording the important events, or the life-changing goals, and the memories which I will always remember, a journal is there to remind you of every other thing.
Insignificant things pass by us every day, things that will probably never affect our lives or change the paths we are living. But they’re there, whether they bring us a small laugh on your way to work, a smile on your dog walks, or even a tear to your eye after a long day, they deserve their moment in your journal.
So, I wanted to try just that right now; readers of Style-Ish I am going to share a small insight into my newfound subject of journaling.
Hey me, it’s been a good week. I’m back at uni, my second semester of second year! It has a ring to it. Can you believe in just four months I will officially have only one more year of university? – neither can I!
Monday was a jam-packed day, uni all day, then I decided to go to a spin class in the evening. It was so much fun, but oh my gosh so hard! At first, I couldn’t quite get the strap on the peddle to stay tight, but that worry definitely subsided as all I could hear was the instructor shouting for us to go faster every minute- love him for that though.
Tuesday’s sunrise was gorgeous, pink flooded the sky and melted into a pale blue as the day started to begin, I feel so lucky I got to see that.
Wednesday again was busy but good, I’ve decided that I need the blue Dfyne set with halter neck top and matching leggings. A girl walked past me in it in the gym and I was straight on the website. I finished the day watching Love Island with a cup of tea and some biscuits. Marlow, our golden lab, was watching me very intently, I gave him the last bite of my shortbread and he almost bit my hand off.
At work on Thursday, a lady walked in with a bunny rabbit in her pram, and when I brought the food over to the table, she offered the bunny the pineapple in a voice that I can only depict as something of a children’s TV program- each to your own, I guess. It was a cute bunny though.
Friday was so cute! All the boys of the family went off to play snooker, so my Granny hosted an afternoon tea for all the ladies. Sandwiches, scones, eclairs- oh my! Her smile when she showed off her new butter dish made my heart melt. Remind me to go round for a cuppa more often.
Image: Ruby Waters
Saturday, I had a walk down to the park after work, it wasn’t raining and was actually quite sunny, still freezing though. I wore my big new coat, and the wind basically bounced off of me. Halfway round the park a springer spaniel ran past me as if to say hello, she reminded me of Honey, our springer who passed at the end of last year. She looked so young and happy on her search for a stick, a happy tear came to my eye as I began to remember when our girl used to do just that.
Sunday was spent at the spa… fancy I know right. I had the most relaxing facial I could have ever imagined, the music was so just right, the smells were amazing, and the lady had hands as soft as satin. I was on the verge of sleep when all I could hear was my tummy rumbling at the thought of a BLT sandwich, holding back my laugh for the next 25 minutes may have been the highlight of that experience.
Life is so full of big things that it can sometimes consume our thoughts, past and present. I think I like sitting down and appreciating the little things. I think, in a few years, maybe when I’m in a different place, different career, surrounded by different people, I will think back to this time of my life. Now I have something to not just remind me of the serious moments, but I can now read everything in between. And I think I prefer that.
Written by Ruby Waters
Edited by Isabel Butler