Keep in mind that these are my opinions, and that while I personally do not enjoy journaling, I will never judge a person for enjoying to do so. That being said, here goes:
"I hate writing a copious amount of words down and I think this exercise is bad. In general, I enjoy writing short blurbs about one small prompt or another, but the whole idea of writing to write is bullshit to me. For people that really want to do it, I ask "why?" I am genuinely interested as to how you enjoy scrawling garbage onto a page or three for however long it takes, how you enjoy your right (or left, I don't judge) hand cramping up so you are forced to do that thing where you roll your wrist hoping that it alleviates the pain, how you enjoy this garbage language we call English enough to not shirk away at the sight of it. Okay, I got my "funny" part out of the way and don't want to put any more of my caffeine-fueled energy into writing much further, but since Sebastian hasn't called "time" yet, I guess I have to keep at this menial labor. Frankly, this will be great when I put this on my blog post for the week and maybe like 2 people read the absolute comedy gold I have graced you with. Sebastian, honest question for you bud, do you read these? If you do then damn I feel bad that you had to read my sorry excuses for 500 words. My forearm really hurts from writing now so I'm just gonna stop until time is up and make it look like I'm writing. Peace out losers."
Now obviously, in classic Calvin "Dramatic" Arevalo "Wait he's a theatre kid?" Tobias fashion, I'm being extremely over the top with my statement of opinion. But that's nothing new for y'all so I hope you appreciate that for what it is. All that stupidity being said, I would really enjoy hearing everyone's opinion about journaling past what we talked about on Friday. If you wanna share you opinion with you (yes even you Sebastian) please do reach out.
To finish this post out, I wanna comment on Maya's post about loneliness. While I do totally see her points and agree with them, I feel like everything has been the opposite way for me.College has been the time in my life where I can truly be social and enjoy my life while also having that balance of lonely time. See, when I was in high school, I committed my life to my studies and music/theatre. Everyone that I talked to was the same, even more over the top than I am and ready to turn their backs on each other at the drop of a pin. Each person was incredibly social but not a single person was a good friend. They all lived their lives with shallow friendships but seemed happy with that. I was extremely social in high school, but not in the way I wanted. I was isolated from everyone else, nobody knew the real me, and it was difficult to show anyone. However, coming to Northeastern, I have found the opposite. I have made such a close group of really good friends, and have genuinely never felt happier in my life. Now believe me, nothing is perfect, but I have enjoyed these past few months more than anything else in my life. That being said, I am always happy to meet new people and form new friendships. I would love to go for a walk and grab bubble tea at any point, so if you hit up Maya or Megan, add me too!
as always with peace and love,
Ya Boi Calvin
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