Coming back with New Year spirit!
Been hanging out a lot around Instagram and seeing people sharing New Year energies are quite energizing me as well.
Eventually, dragging back yourself to what you've been doing past years will make you realize something that might have been missing. In my case, why I love journaling and how it helps me go through life, before.
Tiga bulan terakhir semester kemarin sangat padat dan dihiasi dengan ke kampus buat kuliah, ke lapangan buat eksekusi tugas, ke kantor (I am managed to do a freelance job as copywriter somehow), dan diam berhari-hari di rumah ketika temperatur tubuh naik jadi 39˚C.
Having many activities have always been in my dictionary, what haven't been listed is how to keep not only my activity balanced, but my body balanced as well. So my #notetoself to start a new year is to keep myself in balance, what I do and how I am doing it.
Kemarin, aku menemukan jurnal yang aku pakai untuk mencatat semua kegiatan selama tahun 2014. I think 2014 was one of my busiest year. I was starting my 2nd semester, sedang senang-senangnya punya banyak aktivitas di kampus. Kegiatan di kampus mulai intens dan semua notes tentang kegiatan, juga keperluan kuliah ada di satu jurnal itu. That's kind of saver when I forgot to bring my loose leaf in class.
Sewaktu baca-baca lagi catatan yang aku tulis di dalam jurnal itu, sempat amazed sendiri, "how I managed to do all of these stuffs together in a time?". Aku suka membuat monthly calendar di dalam jurnal dan mencatat kegiatan yang akan aku lakukan selama bulan tersebut, and there are months where I seemed never laid. Ikutan jadi panitia OSPEK, aktif di dua UKM kampus yang lagi banyak big project, sampai ngerjain project film bareng temen-temen, Seingatku, dengan kegiatan yang padat itu, aku jarang sakit. Well I feel stressed in some points but reading my journal back is kind of reminding me that I was once super organized.
Journaling make me tend to details, pengingat hal-hal penting yang mungkin bisa kelupaan. I even wrote my note in a question mode supaya inget kalo poin itu harus ditanyakan. Believe me my journaling style is not even readable 😂, sama sekali nggak rapi. But there's no one rule in journaling, some people make it really tidy, some people draw their notes, some people not even have a journal instead they record things that is important. We can do journaling in so many other ways!
Tahun 2015 lalu, aku jadi peserta di salah satu konferensi mahasiswa, in every end of the day, our moderator ask us to do a journaling. Kami diminta mencatat apa yang telah kami pelajari hari itu, for those who wanted to, can share it in front of the forum of 200 delegates. I'd like to keep it for myself but it's good to listen to other people's journal, kita jadi tau hal-hal penting yang jadi highlight of the day itu berbeda-beda bagi setiap orang, sekalipun kita melewati kegiatan yang sama.
Journaling can always be fun. Aku suka mencatat dengan tinta warna-warni atau bikin tanda tanggal dengan bentuk yang berbeda-beda. Jurnal juga nggak selalu berisi hal-hal yang berkaitan dengan aktivitas kita, it's good to have some separated journal for different notes, misalnya jurnal resep, jurnal untuk lettering, jurnal untuk menulis ide, jurnal untuk menggambar, and many more. Even so, I have tried to divide my journal based on my activites back in 2015, tapi seringkali malah nggak terbawa karena lupa, so I like to keep it all in one book.
I tried to see what is the different thing that I might have done in my 2016 journal, I lost the deets in some parts of my activities. Kenapa akhirnya banyak hal jadi missed, rasanya. Ternyata journaling membantu aku jadi 'timeline police' buat diriku sendiri, funny, it's kind of way to help myself jadi lebih disiplin. Tanpa disadari, having a personalized journal juga bikin aku gampang memahami sesuatu karena directly ditulis saat meeting. I also spill every ideas in my mind by making doodles or decorating my journal.
Have you experience the same thing? Found thee good side of yourself in an old journal? Guess this year I will journaling more journey, then.
Oh and happy new year!
xx,
Avi
